March 3, 2025 • 26 mins
Jack and Nikki discuss a report identifying dangerous chemicals in Girl Scout cookies, take a look at the odd things kids say to school teachers and reveal the Top 5 Mountain Towns in West Virginia according to a lifestyle website that "encourages people to go on dates." Jack pauses to reflect on his time in each town and then tries not to cry. It's pretty compelling.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Let's get to this. I have news, other news, disturbingnews
dot Yes. According to reports this morning, an alarming news
study has found dangerous levels of toxic substances in virtually
one hundred percent of all Girl Scout cookies. Every sample
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of cookie the researcher study contained glyphosate, the active ingredient
in the weed killer roundup. The cookies also contained heavy
metals like lead and arsenic. The dangerous substances are linked
to autism and cancer. A spokesperson for the Girl Scouts insisted, quote,
(01:01):
the health and safety of our customers is our top priority.
All Girl Scout cookies are produced by our trusted licensed
bakers at Dial Chemical. I made that up. They didn't
say Dow Chemical, Okay. They say they are adhering to
food safety standards and so on and so forth. So
I think this is interesting because I've been hearing a
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lot about life asit lately, in just about everything. Apparently
it's in like eighty percent of everything we consume at
some level of this in it. Yet it's everywhere. Yeah, yeah,
there's almost no way to avoid this stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah, Well, because it's used in crops, so you're with
your sugar.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
So maybe we should stop musical and crops. Maybe step
one is we, you know, stop spraying it on the stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Well, then what would we spray on the stuff?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well, I don't know, something that doesn't give us cancer
or autism.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I'm not a farmer. I don't have the answers I know.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, I'm saying if your options are uh, cutting back
on dangerous chemicals, Yeah, there's got to be something you
can do now. I suspected this for a while, which
is why when I'm out around up, I would always
just take a package if you girl girl scout cookies
out and just throw them in the weeds. Yeah, and
then the weeds, you know, would disappear. How do your
ant situation go after that? No trouble, No trouble. So
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I suspected something was up. But this this is, let's say,
intriguing and disturbing news. My question to you, guys is
a simple one. What would it take for you to
give up eating your favorite food? Whatever that might be. Like,
I know there are people who are going to hear
this and say, oh, okay, well I want to stay
clear girls Scout cookies. Now it's kind of scary, but
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there are a lot of people who are going to go,
I don't care what's in them, I'm eating them. There's
no way that I'm going to stop eating girl Scout cookies.
And I just have to wonder, you know, what would
it take, Like what level of threat to your life
would it take for you to give up your favorite food?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Hmmm, that's a good question.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Like instant death. Instant death is like probably the only
thing I could think of.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Instant death. You'd have to die instantly.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
It would be instant.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
You take one bite, you grab your throat, you fall
over dead. Yeah, if that's okay, Well that's that's pretty
big deterrent. I would say, I tell you this, I
drink a lot of propel. Oh yeah, almost exclusively. It's
got yeah, yeah, it's got sucralose in it, which is
not good. And it's in a plastic bottle. Right, yes, yeah,
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So that's probably something I shouldn't be doing, and yet
I persist, and I do believe that it's better than
a bunch of sugary colas and things like that. I mean,
I think it's better. I know, certainly it's better for
your weight than consuming a whole bunch of sugar.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Right, Yeah, yeah, I mean that's the other thing. Yeah, yeah,
I like my PEPSI my doctor Pepper.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Like. I've heard some bad things though about sucralose, and
I know that probably what I'm doing is a mistake.
So I'm throwing this out for you guys, So I'm
not going to get all judgmental on you, all right,
I guess would be the main bullet point of my
presentation here, because that would just make me a hypocrite
because we're all doing it, and lately I've been eating
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a lot of big Macs. There. I said it fine,
Are you happy?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Sounds delicious?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Well, they are delicious, yeah, all of it, the Propel,
the big Max, the three pound bag of Eminem's salt
peanut Eminem. Yeah, it's all there.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah, it sounds all delicious.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
All right, I'm going to take the break. I see
we do have some phone lines ringing here, and we'll
see what would it take for you to give up
your favorite food? Finding out it's full of chemicals. It's
a cancer risk. You're like, hey, you gotta die sometimes.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
What would it take?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
That is essentially the question. I just thought of something
go on.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Then I had to give up energy drinks because I
was getting kidney stones.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
This was college, I guess. Yeah. So yeah, that's something
that made me give up something I really liked.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Did you pass so kidney stone?
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, unfortunately an incredibly painful Uh no. I was heavily
medicated and in the hospital. Yeah, I see, but it
was very very painful, made me very sick.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Is that the one that you named? And it's in
college now?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Yeah, Clyde, Yeah, it's doing great.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Okay, very good. Okay, well let's try to refocus, get
back to the calls eight eight eight seven seven seven
sixty six forty. What's your take on here? Off you go.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Then it would take a lot for me to give
up some of my favorite foods, like completely like ice
cream or talk little okay, yep. But really all it's
was having kids for me to cut out a lot
of it out of my diet really really like die
and a lot of processed sugar and like smack cakes
and stuff. We just we just kind of go without.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Is that because they're unhealthy or I mean you're trying
to keep your kids?
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Why is that they're definitely are unhealthy? I know, like
in the UK, and like there are some bills being
worked on paths right now that are.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
On with the die like the red and yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Now and then the sugar is also just kind of
the same thing.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
This is very interesting to me. So you you were
more concerned than about your kids than you are yourself.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Yeah, that's honestly exactly it. And it's like it I
developed almost like an OCD anxiety, like a habit over it.
When I go to the store, I like read the
box of everything I pick up. If I can't read
the ingredient, I'm not buying it.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
If you can't read it, you just throw it down
on the floor and run off pretty much screaming danger. Listen,
I commend you. That is that kind of a sacrificial love.
Is exactly the kind of love you're supposed to have
for your kids. You're a good mom.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Oh thank you. It's so hard, honestly, I mean, you
can never get it perfect. And like I wouldn't feel
bad for anybody who can't do it because honestly, they
do make the healthy stuff so much more extensive. Yeah,
aford to do it when you Moderation is definitely the key.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, well, you know them cans is cheap, so that's
why you get the crappy stuff cheap. All right, Hey,
thanks for the call, no problemics have good morning you too.
By the way, who better to judge someone's mothering abilities
than me? I mean, when you think about it, I mean,
who better? And she does make a good point about
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how you know, the the healthier stuff is more expensive
because real fresh ingredients are going to cost you more
than cheap chemicals, you know. I mean if you're like, hey,
we want this to taste like an orange, should we
put an orange in it? No?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
No, no, why we do that?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I have a chemical here that tastes just like an orange,
but it's a lot cheaper, right I mean that does happen?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Yeah it does?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah, I get it? All right? Back to it. You
are on the Jack and Nikki Show. Thanks for holding
You're going to get the last word on this. Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
Okay. So I had this debate with my siblings yesterday
because my sister actually sent me the Instagram you know,
link to that story about girl scoupe okay, and then
I did some diggings and it is just some mommy bloggers.
There was no science behind it. There is. This is
not like a real scientific article. They didn't cite forces,
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so it's hard for me to believe that that's actually
going on. Although then again, pretty much everything's going to
give you cancer.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Or kill you, right, that's true.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, well let me let me let me toss this
idea here.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
The story we have is from the Daily Mail, and
they are saying that it is an actual study. So
just for the sake of argument, let's let's say it
is an actual study. Does that change anything for you?
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Probably not, because everything will give you cancer or kill you,
so what does it matter?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah, which, you know what, I'm kind of on board
with that life is really more about quality than quantity.
I know. My dad smoked cigarettes right until they killed him.
And on his deathbed, some very nice gentleman said, hey,
I met you, wish you quit smoking now, huh, which
is an odd thing to say to a man who's
dying from smoking. You know why rub it in? And
my dad said, no, no, not really. I enjoyed it. I
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was in Flavor Country. It was pretty good so well, And.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
You'd be surprised the number of lung cancer patients who
still smoke afterwards, because what's the point. Right after you're
already diagnosed, You're you're doing whatever. Yeah, it could very
well be harder to quit than you know.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Right, But also would you rather would you rather have
sixty really good years or eighty five kind of years?
Speaker 6 (09:28):
I'll take the sixty really good years because when it
gets to the eighty five, right, can't do anything for
yourself when you're in diapers and someone has to take
care of you.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
My gosh, it's the diaper's part for me too.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah, that's exactly right there, and that's why after the
show today, I'm going to eat a box of Girl
Scout cookies and smoke a cart and of cigarettes.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Hey, thanks for the call.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
The Jack and Nikki Show one two w v AQ.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Well, I'm glad we got that out of the way down.
Let's move on to the TikTok.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
If you haven't heard of the TikTok app, it's.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
The app popping up on phones everywhere.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
TikTok, TikTok app, TikTok hass five hundred million active uses.
This is a TikTok trend going viral.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Put that on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
She's right, you guys, it's a TikTok trend going viral.
It's teachers revealing the things that have been said unto
them by they children. Oh, and I want to share
this with you. And then of course go with the
open studio and textual lines because we have many, many
teachers listening to this show all over the great state
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of West Virginia, parks of Pennsylvania, and yes, even in Maryland.
And I want to know what kind of things have
been said to you by your children? All right? Eight
eight eight seven seven seven sixty six forty where you
can shoot us a quick text if you would like.
What kind of things do the kids say to you
as a teacher that maybe catch you off guard? Maybe
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kind of on the surprising side. Let's take a listen here.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
Things that my students have said to me. Number one,
is it illegal to sign someone up for the military
without them knowing?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
I said yes, just to be safe.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
Number two, how do a student ask me? Can you
rate this beat? And then they proceeded to play a
beat that they made on their Chromebook with an app
called beat Maker. I ended up giving it a seven
out of ten. It wasn't amazing. Number three, would this
at least get me a c Those are my least
favorite questions. I didn't answer it. Another good one. I'll
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give you ten dollars to give me. An a said,
it's going to cost a lot more than that. Can
I show you something, but you have to promise you
won't snitch. Unfortunately, it is part of my job description
to snitch when necessary. One of my students last period
said to me, you haven't given us candy in like
three weeks. I will make sure to get on that
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right away.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Well, yeah, I mean the candy things very important.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
There you go, There you go. I think the question
about signing up someone for the military without their knowledge
is really interesting. That sounds like a kid who's maybe
trying to get rid of an older sibling or something,
trying to get somebody out of the house, or maybe
one of the other students.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Maybe. Yeah, that was very specific.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Very specific. Yeah, he's thinking, this kid's causing me trouble.
One day, we'll just be sitting here in class. Military
recruiter shows up. Let's go buddy, you signed up. Off
you go.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Then, unless it's a parent threatening it because the kids.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I'll sign you up for the army.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Yeah right, that might be it.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Right. See what I used to get was I'll send
you to pruney Town. Yeah, yeah, yeah, which was also
pretty frightening. Okay eight eight eight seven seven seven sixty
six forty text line open as well. Curious. I'm just
going to toss this out to the teaching community. What
kind of stuff have your students said to you that
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caught you off guard? Something a little une expected, something
a little surprising, something weak in milk for material on
this show this morning eight eight eight seven seven seven
sixty six forty or text us will take a look
at what you guys have to say. Next, Nikki Drake,
what are we seeing?
Speaker 4 (13:23):
There's some cute stuff coming in. Actually, hold on one second,
my screen just went blank.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Okay, preschooler, this is a conversation between the preschooler and
the teacher. Preschooler, I can turn into a garbage truck. Teacher, cool,
can I see, preschooler, I only do it if it's
an emergency.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Could you turn into anything in an emergency? As a
preschooler or even as an adult.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I can make any claim you want, as long as
I don't have to demonstrate it. People adults do that
all the time.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Yeah, yeah, he's learning fast, Yes he is. Your hair
looks pretty. Do you want to be my wife?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Which is also how I proposed to Jessica. By the way,
that's that's how it happened.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
That's how I happened.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yeah, and she said, yeah, that's cute. This one's kind
of silly. The student raised their hand in class. My
poop's about ready to come out. I'm hoping this was
a young student.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
A schooler. I'm hoping it was a senior age so well,
you know where that listened. Kids, kids, That is not
the proper way to do that. Everybody knows. The proper
phrasing in that situation is I got a turtle head
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poking out. That's what you say. Okay, yeah, I got
I got a turtlehead poken out.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
I gotta get that now. Yeah, sure, I thank you, Jack.
This has been education.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Well you know, I uh, I spent a few years
teaching etiquette at school, so.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Yes, yeah, you to the state I did.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Yeah, it's hard to believe I was fired from that job.
All right, you got anything else?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Oh, there's another cute one here, this coming in from
a male teacher. I was working with some first graders.
This little girl was having trouble and buttoning her coat,
so I helped her. She gave me a hug and
said thanks, you're a good mommy.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
What to the male teacher.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah, that's why I'm confused. Why would she say that
to him?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Because that's the things kids say. I don't know, that's
what she said.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Odd? Was he wearing a wig?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Okay, all right, very good. I have a few here.
They caught my attention. They came in on the text
line again things kids have said. Two teachers, why do
you smell so weird?
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Oh? Yeah, that's very direct.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Okay, Well that's the great thing about kids, no filter, right,
they don't know, they have no concept of propriety. Okay,
And maybe the teacher did smell weird. That's the thing
about this. What if you do smell and you.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Don't know it and nobody's telling you because the adults
are too polite to say anything.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
But the kids with no filter, they'll let you know.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
They'll let you know if you smell weird, you know what?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Good job kids.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah, here's another one. Why don't you have a wife?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Oh wow?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Uh huh again from the mouths of babes.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
And finally are your cranky ant?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
And finally, which I should I look at when you're
talking to me? That's oh boy, that's that's the question
for the Walleye teacher. Apparently that's yeah, unfortunate. But you know, again,
if you're a kid without a filter, that is confusing.
If you're talking to somebody and they've got a wanky eye,
you don't know which one you should be focusing on.
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So that's a fair question.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
The Nerve Center of North Central West Virginia Jack Loger
and Nikki Drake on one O two w.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
V AQ right now have some good news for West Virginia.
I have news. Oh, I have news, news that makes
West Virginia look good. Yeah, okay, Now I do like
this and some of these places are my favorite places
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on this planet. This is from a lifestyle website called
we go dating dot Com, where they encourage people to
apparently go dating. Says here go dating. Okay, all right,
so they're going to tell people, hey, get together, go
do a little handholding in the mountains, maybe you know,
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a little smooching, enjoy the scenic overlooks, and so on
and so forth. So they have their it looks like
their top one hundred mountain getaways in America, and West
Virginia has got five on this list. And I'm going
to work my way through.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
These all top one.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
That's right, Yeah, make some coffee and have a seat
and get ready to We're going to go through all
one hundred of these towns. Now, let's go through the
West Virginia towns because we don't really care about any
other towns. Okay, okay, So coming in at number sixty seven,
Thomas and Davis. They've combined Thomas and Davis into one
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into one town, which you know, they're pretty close to
each other. They're pretty similar. They are fantastic towns. So Thomas,
you know you're gonna go in there and do a
little shopping walking along the street. Got the purple fiddle there.
There's a great place to get some candied apples. Okay, right,
there's a bank if you need to go to the ATM.
There's a year round Christmas store. For some reason, that's
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a door. It's a cool town. I mean, there's no
question about Thomas's cool town. And then Davis. I mean
you got Siriani's. You know, you got some other great
restaurants there. There's a nice little ice cream place. Jessicas
go to Sirianni's and then walk across the street, get some
ice cream. Take walking tour of town. Davis is fantastic town.
Adjacent to Kannaane Valley. It's all right there. Okay, let's
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see coming in at number sixty two Harper's Ferry. Okay again,
Harper's Ferry. What a beautiful town. Harper's Ferry is. It's
historic and they have the historical section that's basically been
untouched since John Brown's raid in the streets and those
old buildings and stuff, and then the hiking trails, the
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Maryland Heights overlooked where you come and look back hike
up there and you can look back on on Harper's Ferry.
Oh my god, it is fantastic. Coming in. Let's see
at number thirty six, Davis Os Virginia. Yeah. I don't
know why they peeled Davis off. They started with the
Thomas and Davis at sixty seven Harper's Ferry sixty two,
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and now back to just Davis.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
What that doesn't make any sense?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah, so Davis gets mentioned twice.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Well, you know, you know what they deserve it.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I think they do. Yeah, I mean I love Davis.
Like to be buried there if if the town council
hadn't gotten together.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
And put a stop to.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
That, put a stop to me being buried.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
The Wow, you're working ahead.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Really They were like, well, somebody has to kill him first.
How long is that going to take? Okay, coming in
at number thirty four. Berkeley Springs in the Panhandle. Berkeley Springs. Okay,
Jessica and I were just there a couple of times
over the summer, went to Berkeley Springs. Yeah, yeah, Chase
big mudhole that I guess George Washington used to bathe then,
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and I remember we were looking at I said, this
guy must have been filthy. This is a mud hole.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Well now it's a mudhole.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Well exactly did you try in twenty twenty four it
was a mudhole when when you know there it's part
of a park and they have people working on it
with pressure washers and gates around it. Now it's a mudhole.
Magice what it was back in the day.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
It could have been like a little hot spring type thing.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
It goes, let's see, but.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Did you try to bathe in the mudhole?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
No? No, no, no, I didn't go.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
That far with major no skin, all nice and soft
and yeah, I don't think that's uh treatment, I think
it would have been the end result.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
And coming in I believe here the highest spot for
a West Virginia mountain town at number twenty nine. Louisbourg.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
That's where the chocolate festival is Louisbourg.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, it's the State Fairs right below Louisbourg and fairly
okay and again some great restaurants. The cool thing about Louisbourg.
First of all, I mean it is gorgeous. It's just
a beautiful town. But it's really it's interesting because there's
a lot of art and culture there and they have
a rich and some really cool people. I mean, it's
a really nice, little just oasis. Like you're just on
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the mountains and all of a sudden you pop into
Louisbourg and it's it's really cool. It's a very cool town.
If you haven't been to Louisbourg, I say go and enjoy.
We were talking about the best mountain towns in West Virginia,
and surprisingly Snowshoot Mountain is not on that list. And
then somehow we transitioned into bear sidings and people are
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now texting in with bear sidings places they've they've seen
bears in West Virginia, not surprising a lot of those
in Preston County, a few in Randolph County, one in
Barber County. Nikki, have you ever seen a bear in
the wild? I have?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
I have yes in Alaska.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
You were in Alaska? Yes? Oh, I didn't know you
went to Alaska.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I went to Alaska and I saw We were on
a train ride and we saw a bear while we
were on the train going through Alaska.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I see, what was the bear doing sitting there?
Speaker 4 (22:45):
It was just hanging out.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
It wasn't a guy in Acosta. It was it.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
It was just hanging out.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
And you know what kind of a bear was it?
Speaker 4 (22:53):
I believe it was a black bear in Alaska or
a brown bear. I don't know. It was a bear.
It was a bear I saw.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
It was that was speaking? Was it speaking English? Was
it using utensils?
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Was it was.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
It driving a car? Okay, all right, very good. Well
that's something I've the only place I've seen bears in
West Virginia and Tennessee. And Kyle was talking about being
in Tennessee and they are everywhere ubiquitous is what I'm
indicating in Tennessee. Uh, But I've seen a lot of
them West Virginia. We were talking about Snowshoe and I
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mentioned the last time Jessica and I were there in
my bike, we almost hit a black bear. But I've
seen three different black bears. Well, I guess it could
have been the same black bear who kept appearing every
year in different places on the mountain. But I saw
one at the entrance where you're where you're coming up,
just getting ready to turn to go up on Snowshoe Mountain.
There was a bear there one time. Uh. The one
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we almost hit was about halfway down the mountain. And
then at Silver Creek, I saw one in my rear
view mirror. I was i'd gone around the turn and
I looked in my rear view mirror. Something caught my
eye and it was a black bear walking across the
road behind us, and I was like, this is wild.
They're black bears here everywhere.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
You know. It may not be the same bear, but
it may be from the same family and their last reunion,
they were like, hey, there's this guy's.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Screw with him. Yeah, we know what's really weird. When
Jessica was in high school, she took skiing classes at
Snowshoe and her ski instructor was a black Bear. It's
the story of Karen and the parking space dispute. Oh okay,
Karen got into it with a man because she wanted
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him to move his car so she could park in
his spot. And they had an exchange, and as luck
would have it, this man recorded that exchange.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Oh good, yes, and it's what we need.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Went a little something like this hit it.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I got to play.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
You're gonna be in real trouble.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
You're sitting in the car.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
I need to park here.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
No, I'm parking here. I lived here.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Well get out.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
You don't have a car pass.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
I do, and it's all your business. I live here.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
You're here a lot, and I see you you don't
live here, and even so I need to talk.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Yet that's how you.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Are a disgusting.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Okay, you can tell by the accents. Kentucky obviously that's
where these people are from. I love that. What a
great insult that is. Yeah, your mother. Yeah. Yeah, again,
we can sit in marvel over the entitlement that these
Karens have. But I don't think there's anything that can
be said that has not been said about the entitlement.
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It's amazing, absolutely amazing. And she's telling him, I've been
watching you. I know you don't live here, but you're
here all the time. You're in the way. You need
to move so I can park here. I mean, you're here.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
All the time, but you don't live here, but I've
been watching you.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yeah, she makes so much sense. That's not I mean,
he might be dating somebody who lives in that apartment
complex or something. Maybe he is there visiting all the time,
but that's or maybe or maybe he lives there. But
I'm just saying, let's say that he doesn't. That's not
how you go about that. You don't go up to
his car and tell him, Hey, I've been watching you,
and I want you to get your car out of here,
because I'm I mean, that's that. You just don't handle
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it that way.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Right, Oh, you've been watching me, have you?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Restraining order time
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Meet it Rockwell, I'll park wherever I want.
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Let's get to this. I have news, other news, disturbingnews
dot Yes. According to reports this morning, an alarming news
study has found dangerous levels of toxic substances in virtually
one hundred percent of all Girl Scout cookies. Every sample
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of cookie the researcher study contained glyphosate, the active ingredient
in the weed killer roundup. The cookies also contained heavy
metals like lead and arsenic. The dangerous substances are linked
to autism and cancer. A spokesperson for the Girl Scouts insisted, quote,
(01:01):
the health and safety of our customers is our top priority.
All Girl Scout cookies are produced by our trusted licensed
bakers at Dial Chemical. I made that up. They didn't
say Dow Chemical, Okay. They say they are adhering to
food safety standards and so on and so forth. So
I think this is interesting because I've been hearing a
(01:23):
lot about life asit lately, in just about everything. Apparently
it's in like eighty percent of everything we consume at
some level of this in it. Yet it's everywhere. Yeah, yeah,
there's almost no way to avoid this stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah, Well, because it's used in crops, so you're with
your sugar.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
So maybe we should stop musical and crops. Maybe step
one is we, you know, stop spraying it on the stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Well, then what would we spray on the stuff?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well, I don't know, something that doesn't give us cancer
or autism.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I'm not a farmer. I don't have the answers I know.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, I'm saying if your options are uh, cutting back
on dangerous chemicals, Yeah, there's got to be something you
can do now. I suspected this for a while, which
is why when I'm out around up, I would always
just take a package if you girl girl scout cookies
out and just throw them in the weeds. Yeah, and
then the weeds, you know, would disappear. How do your
ant situation go after that? No trouble, No trouble. So
(02:22):
I suspected something was up. But this this is, let's say,
intriguing and disturbing news. My question to you, guys is
a simple one. What would it take for you to
give up eating your favorite food? Whatever that might be. Like,
I know there are people who are going to hear
this and say, oh, okay, well I want to stay
clear girls Scout cookies. Now it's kind of scary, but
(02:44):
there are a lot of people who are going to go,
I don't care what's in them, I'm eating them. There's
no way that I'm going to stop eating girl Scout cookies.
And I just have to wonder, you know, what would
it take, Like what level of threat to your life
would it take for you to give up your favorite food?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Hmmm, that's a good question.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Like instant death. Instant death is like probably the only
thing I could think of.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Instant death. You'd have to die instantly.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
It would be instant.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
You take one bite, you grab your throat, you fall
over dead. Yeah, if that's okay, Well that's that's pretty
big deterrent. I would say, I tell you this, I
drink a lot of propel. Oh yeah, almost exclusively. It's
got yeah, yeah, it's got sucralose in it, which is
not good. And it's in a plastic bottle. Right, yes, yeah,
(03:30):
So that's probably something I shouldn't be doing, and yet
I persist, and I do believe that it's better than
a bunch of sugary colas and things like that. I mean,
I think it's better. I know, certainly it's better for
your weight than consuming a whole bunch of sugar.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Right, Yeah, yeah, I mean that's the other thing. Yeah, yeah,
I like my PEPSI my doctor Pepper.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Like. I've heard some bad things though about sucralose, and
I know that probably what I'm doing is a mistake.
So I'm throwing this out for you guys, So I'm
not going to get all judgmental on you, all right,
I guess would be the main bullet point of my
presentation here, because that would just make me a hypocrite
because we're all doing it, and lately I've been eating
(04:13):
a lot of big Macs. There. I said it fine,
Are you happy?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Sounds delicious?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Well, they are delicious, yeah, all of it, the Propel,
the big Max, the three pound bag of Eminem's salt
peanut Eminem. Yeah, it's all there.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah, it sounds all delicious.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
All right, I'm going to take the break. I see
we do have some phone lines ringing here, and we'll
see what would it take for you to give up
your favorite food? Finding out it's full of chemicals. It's
a cancer risk. You're like, hey, you gotta die sometimes.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
What would it take?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
That is essentially the question. I just thought of something
go on.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Then I had to give up energy drinks because I
was getting kidney stones.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
This was college, I guess. Yeah. So yeah, that's something
that made me give up something I really liked.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Did you pass so kidney stone?
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, unfortunately an incredibly painful Uh no. I was heavily
medicated and in the hospital. Yeah, I see, but it
was very very painful, made me very sick.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Is that the one that you named? And it's in
college now?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Yeah, Clyde, Yeah, it's doing great.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Okay, very good. Okay, well let's try to refocus, get
back to the calls eight eight eight seven seven seven
sixty six forty. What's your take on here? Off you go.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Then it would take a lot for me to give
up some of my favorite foods, like completely like ice
cream or talk little okay, yep. But really all it's
was having kids for me to cut out a lot
of it out of my diet really really like die
and a lot of processed sugar and like smack cakes
and stuff. We just we just kind of go without.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Is that because they're unhealthy or I mean you're trying
to keep your kids?
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Why is that they're definitely are unhealthy? I know, like
in the UK, and like there are some bills being
worked on paths right now that are.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
On with the die like the red and yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Now and then the sugar is also just kind of
the same thing.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
This is very interesting to me. So you you were
more concerned than about your kids than you are yourself.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Yeah, that's honestly exactly it. And it's like it I
developed almost like an OCD anxiety, like a habit over it.
When I go to the store, I like read the
box of everything I pick up. If I can't read
the ingredient, I'm not buying it.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
If you can't read it, you just throw it down
on the floor and run off pretty much screaming danger. Listen,
I commend you. That is that kind of a sacrificial love.
Is exactly the kind of love you're supposed to have
for your kids. You're a good mom.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Oh thank you. It's so hard, honestly, I mean, you
can never get it perfect. And like I wouldn't feel
bad for anybody who can't do it because honestly, they
do make the healthy stuff so much more extensive. Yeah,
aford to do it when you Moderation is definitely the key.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, well, you know them cans is cheap, so that's
why you get the crappy stuff cheap. All right, Hey,
thanks for the call, no problemics have good morning you too.
By the way, who better to judge someone's mothering abilities
than me? I mean, when you think about it, I mean,
who better? And she does make a good point about
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how you know, the the healthier stuff is more expensive
because real fresh ingredients are going to cost you more
than cheap chemicals, you know. I mean if you're like, hey,
we want this to taste like an orange, should we
put an orange in it? No?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
No, no, why we do that?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I have a chemical here that tastes just like an orange,
but it's a lot cheaper, right I mean that does happen?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Yeah it does?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah, I get it? All right? Back to it. You
are on the Jack and Nikki Show. Thanks for holding
You're going to get the last word on this. Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
Okay. So I had this debate with my siblings yesterday
because my sister actually sent me the Instagram you know,
link to that story about girl scoupe okay, and then
I did some diggings and it is just some mommy bloggers.
There was no science behind it. There is. This is
not like a real scientific article. They didn't cite forces,
(08:14):
so it's hard for me to believe that that's actually
going on. Although then again, pretty much everything's going to
give you cancer.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Or kill you, right, that's true.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, well let me let me let me toss this
idea here.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
The story we have is from the Daily Mail, and
they are saying that it is an actual study. So
just for the sake of argument, let's let's say it
is an actual study. Does that change anything for you?
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Probably not, because everything will give you cancer or kill you,
so what does it matter?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah, which, you know what, I'm kind of on board
with that life is really more about quality than quantity.
I know. My dad smoked cigarettes right until they killed him.
And on his deathbed, some very nice gentleman said, hey,
I met you, wish you quit smoking now, huh, which
is an odd thing to say to a man who's
dying from smoking. You know why rub it in? And
my dad said, no, no, not really. I enjoyed it. I
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was in Flavor Country. It was pretty good so well, And.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
You'd be surprised the number of lung cancer patients who
still smoke afterwards, because what's the point. Right after you're
already diagnosed, You're you're doing whatever. Yeah, it could very
well be harder to quit than you know.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Right, But also would you rather would you rather have
sixty really good years or eighty five kind of years?
Speaker 6 (09:28):
I'll take the sixty really good years because when it
gets to the eighty five, right, can't do anything for
yourself when you're in diapers and someone has to take
care of you.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
My gosh, it's the diaper's part for me too.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah, that's exactly right there, and that's why after the
show today, I'm going to eat a box of Girl
Scout cookies and smoke a cart and of cigarettes.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Hey, thanks for the call.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
The Jack and Nikki Show one two w v AQ.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Well, I'm glad we got that out of the way down.
Let's move on to the TikTok.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
If you haven't heard of the TikTok app, it's.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
The app popping up on phones everywhere.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
TikTok, TikTok app, TikTok hass five hundred million active uses.
This is a TikTok trend going viral.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Put that on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
She's right, you guys, it's a TikTok trend going viral.
It's teachers revealing the things that have been said unto
them by they children. Oh, and I want to share
this with you. And then of course go with the
open studio and textual lines because we have many, many
teachers listening to this show all over the great state
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of West Virginia, parks of Pennsylvania, and yes, even in Maryland.
And I want to know what kind of things have
been said to you by your children? All right? Eight
eight eight seven seven seven sixty six forty where you
can shoot us a quick text if you would like.
What kind of things do the kids say to you
as a teacher that maybe catch you off guard? Maybe
(11:01):
kind of on the surprising side. Let's take a listen here.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
Things that my students have said to me. Number one,
is it illegal to sign someone up for the military
without them knowing?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
I said yes, just to be safe.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
Number two, how do a student ask me? Can you
rate this beat? And then they proceeded to play a
beat that they made on their Chromebook with an app
called beat Maker. I ended up giving it a seven
out of ten. It wasn't amazing. Number three, would this
at least get me a c Those are my least
favorite questions. I didn't answer it. Another good one. I'll
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give you ten dollars to give me. An a said,
it's going to cost a lot more than that. Can
I show you something, but you have to promise you
won't snitch. Unfortunately, it is part of my job description
to snitch when necessary. One of my students last period
said to me, you haven't given us candy in like
three weeks. I will make sure to get on that
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right away.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Well, yeah, I mean the candy things very important.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
There you go, There you go. I think the question
about signing up someone for the military without their knowledge
is really interesting. That sounds like a kid who's maybe
trying to get rid of an older sibling or something,
trying to get somebody out of the house, or maybe
one of the other students.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Maybe. Yeah, that was very specific.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Very specific. Yeah, he's thinking, this kid's causing me trouble.
One day, we'll just be sitting here in class. Military
recruiter shows up. Let's go buddy, you signed up. Off
you go.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Then, unless it's a parent threatening it because the kids.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I'll sign you up for the army.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Yeah right, that might be it.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Right. See what I used to get was I'll send
you to pruney Town. Yeah, yeah, yeah, which was also
pretty frightening. Okay eight eight eight seven seven seven sixty
six forty text line open as well. Curious. I'm just
going to toss this out to the teaching community. What
kind of stuff have your students said to you that
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caught you off guard? Something a little une expected, something
a little surprising, something weak in milk for material on
this show this morning eight eight eight seven seven seven
sixty six forty or text us will take a look
at what you guys have to say. Next, Nikki Drake,
what are we seeing?
Speaker 4 (13:23):
There's some cute stuff coming in. Actually, hold on one second,
my screen just went blank.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Okay, preschooler, this is a conversation between the preschooler and
the teacher. Preschooler, I can turn into a garbage truck. Teacher, cool,
can I see, preschooler, I only do it if it's
an emergency.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Could you turn into anything in an emergency? As a
preschooler or even as an adult.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I can make any claim you want, as long as
I don't have to demonstrate it. People adults do that
all the time.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Yeah, yeah, he's learning fast, Yes he is. Your hair
looks pretty. Do you want to be my wife?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Which is also how I proposed to Jessica. By the way,
that's that's how it happened.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
That's how I happened.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yeah, and she said, yeah, that's cute. This one's kind
of silly. The student raised their hand in class. My
poop's about ready to come out. I'm hoping this was
a young student.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
A schooler. I'm hoping it was a senior age so well,
you know where that listened. Kids, kids, That is not
the proper way to do that. Everybody knows. The proper
phrasing in that situation is I got a turtle head
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poking out. That's what you say. Okay, yeah, I got
I got a turtlehead poken out.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
I gotta get that now. Yeah, sure, I thank you, Jack.
This has been education.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Well you know, I uh, I spent a few years
teaching etiquette at school, so.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Yes, yeah, you to the state I did.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Yeah, it's hard to believe I was fired from that job.
All right, you got anything else?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Oh, there's another cute one here, this coming in from
a male teacher. I was working with some first graders.
This little girl was having trouble and buttoning her coat,
so I helped her. She gave me a hug and
said thanks, you're a good mommy.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
What to the male teacher.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah, that's why I'm confused. Why would she say that
to him?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Because that's the things kids say. I don't know, that's
what she said.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Odd? Was he wearing a wig?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Okay, all right, very good. I have a few here.
They caught my attention. They came in on the text
line again things kids have said. Two teachers, why do
you smell so weird?
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Oh? Yeah, that's very direct.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Okay, Well that's the great thing about kids, no filter, right,
they don't know, they have no concept of propriety. Okay,
And maybe the teacher did smell weird. That's the thing
about this. What if you do smell and you.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Don't know it and nobody's telling you because the adults
are too polite to say anything.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
But the kids with no filter, they'll let you know.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
They'll let you know if you smell weird, you know what?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Good job kids.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah, here's another one. Why don't you have a wife?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Oh wow?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Uh huh again from the mouths of babes.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
And finally are your cranky ant?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
And finally, which I should I look at when you're
talking to me? That's oh boy, that's that's the question
for the Walleye teacher. Apparently that's yeah, unfortunate. But you know, again,
if you're a kid without a filter, that is confusing.
If you're talking to somebody and they've got a wanky eye,
you don't know which one you should be focusing on.
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So that's a fair question.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
The Nerve Center of North Central West Virginia Jack Loger
and Nikki Drake on one O two w.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
V AQ right now have some good news for West Virginia.
I have news. Oh, I have news, news that makes
West Virginia look good. Yeah, okay, Now I do like
this and some of these places are my favorite places
(17:14):
on this planet. This is from a lifestyle website called
we go dating dot Com, where they encourage people to
apparently go dating. Says here go dating. Okay, all right,
so they're going to tell people, hey, get together, go
do a little handholding in the mountains, maybe you know,
(17:36):
a little smooching, enjoy the scenic overlooks, and so on
and so forth. So they have their it looks like
their top one hundred mountain getaways in America, and West
Virginia has got five on this list. And I'm going
to work my way through.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
These all top one.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
That's right, Yeah, make some coffee and have a seat
and get ready to We're going to go through all
one hundred of these towns. Now, let's go through the
West Virginia towns because we don't really care about any
other towns. Okay, okay, So coming in at number sixty seven,
Thomas and Davis. They've combined Thomas and Davis into one
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into one town, which you know, they're pretty close to
each other. They're pretty similar. They are fantastic towns. So Thomas,
you know you're gonna go in there and do a
little shopping walking along the street. Got the purple fiddle there.
There's a great place to get some candied apples. Okay, right,
there's a bank if you need to go to the ATM.
There's a year round Christmas store. For some reason, that's
(18:42):
a door. It's a cool town. I mean, there's no
question about Thomas's cool town. And then Davis. I mean
you got Siriani's. You know, you got some other great
restaurants there. There's a nice little ice cream place. Jessicas
go to Sirianni's and then walk across the street, get some
ice cream. Take walking tour of town. Davis is fantastic town.
Adjacent to Kannaane Valley. It's all right there. Okay, let's
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see coming in at number sixty two Harper's Ferry. Okay again,
Harper's Ferry. What a beautiful town. Harper's Ferry is. It's
historic and they have the historical section that's basically been
untouched since John Brown's raid in the streets and those
old buildings and stuff, and then the hiking trails, the
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Maryland Heights overlooked where you come and look back hike
up there and you can look back on on Harper's Ferry.
Oh my god, it is fantastic. Coming in. Let's see
at number thirty six, Davis Os Virginia. Yeah. I don't
know why they peeled Davis off. They started with the
Thomas and Davis at sixty seven Harper's Ferry sixty two,
(19:49):
and now back to just Davis.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
What that doesn't make any sense?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah, so Davis gets mentioned twice.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Well, you know, you know what they deserve it.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I think they do. Yeah, I mean I love Davis.
Like to be buried there if if the town council
hadn't gotten together.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
And put a stop to.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
That, put a stop to me being buried.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
The Wow, you're working ahead.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Really They were like, well, somebody has to kill him first.
How long is that going to take? Okay, coming in
at number thirty four. Berkeley Springs in the Panhandle. Berkeley Springs. Okay,
Jessica and I were just there a couple of times
over the summer, went to Berkeley Springs. Yeah, yeah, Chase
big mudhole that I guess George Washington used to bathe then,
(20:32):
and I remember we were looking at I said, this
guy must have been filthy. This is a mud hole.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Well now it's a mudhole.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Well exactly did you try in twenty twenty four it
was a mudhole when when you know there it's part
of a park and they have people working on it
with pressure washers and gates around it. Now it's a mudhole.
Magice what it was back in the day.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
It could have been like a little hot spring type thing.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
It goes, let's see, but.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Did you try to bathe in the mudhole?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
No? No, no, no, I didn't go.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
That far with major no skin, all nice and soft
and yeah, I don't think that's uh treatment, I think
it would have been the end result.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
And coming in I believe here the highest spot for
a West Virginia mountain town at number twenty nine. Louisbourg.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
That's where the chocolate festival is Louisbourg.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, it's the State Fairs right below Louisbourg and fairly
okay and again some great restaurants. The cool thing about Louisbourg.
First of all, I mean it is gorgeous. It's just
a beautiful town. But it's really it's interesting because there's
a lot of art and culture there and they have
a rich and some really cool people. I mean, it's
a really nice, little just oasis. Like you're just on
(21:44):
the mountains and all of a sudden you pop into
Louisbourg and it's it's really cool. It's a very cool town.
If you haven't been to Louisbourg, I say go and enjoy.
We were talking about the best mountain towns in West Virginia,
and surprisingly Snowshoot Mountain is not on that list. And
then somehow we transitioned into bear sidings and people are
(22:09):
now texting in with bear sidings places they've they've seen
bears in West Virginia, not surprising a lot of those
in Preston County, a few in Randolph County, one in
Barber County. Nikki, have you ever seen a bear in
the wild? I have?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
I have yes in Alaska.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
You were in Alaska? Yes? Oh, I didn't know you
went to Alaska.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I went to Alaska and I saw We were on
a train ride and we saw a bear while we
were on the train going through Alaska.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I see, what was the bear doing sitting there?
Speaker 4 (22:45):
It was just hanging out.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
It wasn't a guy in Acosta. It was it.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
It was just hanging out.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
And you know what kind of a bear was it?
Speaker 4 (22:53):
I believe it was a black bear in Alaska or
a brown bear. I don't know. It was a bear.
It was a bear I saw.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
It was that was speaking? Was it speaking English? Was
it using utensils?
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Was it was.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
It driving a car? Okay, all right, very good. Well
that's something I've the only place I've seen bears in
West Virginia and Tennessee. And Kyle was talking about being
in Tennessee and they are everywhere ubiquitous is what I'm
indicating in Tennessee. Uh, But I've seen a lot of
them West Virginia. We were talking about Snowshoe and I
(23:30):
mentioned the last time Jessica and I were there in
my bike, we almost hit a black bear. But I've
seen three different black bears. Well, I guess it could
have been the same black bear who kept appearing every
year in different places on the mountain. But I saw
one at the entrance where you're where you're coming up,
just getting ready to turn to go up on Snowshoe Mountain.
There was a bear there one time. Uh. The one
(23:50):
we almost hit was about halfway down the mountain. And
then at Silver Creek, I saw one in my rear
view mirror. I was i'd gone around the turn and
I looked in my rear view mirror. Something caught my
eye and it was a black bear walking across the
road behind us, and I was like, this is wild.
They're black bears here everywhere.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
You know. It may not be the same bear, but
it may be from the same family and their last reunion,
they were like, hey, there's this guy's.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Screw with him. Yeah, we know what's really weird. When
Jessica was in high school, she took skiing classes at
Snowshoe and her ski instructor was a black Bear. It's
the story of Karen and the parking space dispute. Oh okay,
Karen got into it with a man because she wanted
(24:38):
him to move his car so she could park in
his spot. And they had an exchange, and as luck
would have it, this man recorded that exchange.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Oh good, yes, and it's what we need.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Went a little something like this hit it.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I got to play.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
You're gonna be in real trouble.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
You're sitting in the car.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
I need to park here.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
No, I'm parking here. I lived here.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Well get out.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
You don't have a car pass.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
I do, and it's all your business. I live here.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
You're here a lot, and I see you you don't
live here, and even so I need to talk.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Yet that's how you.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Are a disgusting.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Okay, you can tell by the accents. Kentucky obviously that's
where these people are from. I love that. What a
great insult that is. Yeah, your mother. Yeah. Yeah, again,
we can sit in marvel over the entitlement that these
Karens have. But I don't think there's anything that can
be said that has not been said about the entitlement.
(25:42):
It's amazing, absolutely amazing. And she's telling him, I've been
watching you. I know you don't live here, but you're
here all the time. You're in the way. You need
to move so I can park here. I mean, you're here.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
All the time, but you don't live here, but I've
been watching you.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yeah, she makes so much sense. That's not I mean,
he might be dating somebody who lives in that apartment
complex or something. Maybe he is there visiting all the time,
but that's or maybe or maybe he lives there. But
I'm just saying, let's say that he doesn't. That's not
how you go about that. You don't go up to
his car and tell him, Hey, I've been watching you,
and I want you to get your car out of here,
because I'm I mean, that's that. You just don't handle
(26:22):
it that way.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Right, Oh, you've been watching me, have you?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Restraining order time
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Meet it Rockwell, I'll park wherever I want.
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