08/19/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - JB McCuskey, Robb Reel

Attorney General JB McCuskey and more on the WVU Medicine Children’s Radiothon.

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zero zero want to welcome into the show. The Attorney
General's say in the Western Gin JB. Mccusky, Good morning, sir,
How are you?

Speaker 4 (02:35):
Good morning, Dave? How are you?

Speaker 5 (02:36):
I am fine? What's going on? Man?

Speaker 4 (02:38):
You've been making on first couple of days of school,
getting the girls off, getting back on a schedule.

Speaker 5 (02:43):
Mean I favor pop up that microphone.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
You're there getting back on a schedule, which is awesome.

Speaker 5 (02:48):
Okay, So and then what I know you love to
talk about your girls, so I'll give you an opportunity.
How old are they? What grades ago?

Speaker 4 (02:54):
We have a fifth grader and a second grader. They
are both at Holtz Elementary School and they couldn't have
been more excited to get started. And the school's the best,
their teachers are great.

Speaker 5 (03:04):
And the fifth graders went to middle school. Sixth graders
go to middle school, I think because I know they
because back back in the back hold back in.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
The old days, the seventh grade is when junior high
school started. Junior Were you a junior high or junior
high school? And to be fair, I actually liked that
system way better. It doesn't seem like we should be
trying to push freshmen together with seniors as fast as
we do. I thought the seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven,
twelve worked great.

Speaker 5 (03:30):
Yeah, I don't know when they changed back when, back
in the day when I was in school, it was seventh,
eighth and ninth was junior high, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth
was senior and then I know my hometown, what they
did was they they merged the two competing junior highs
into a middle school. Then they went to the fifth, sixth,
seventh and eighth was middle school, and then the ninth graders,
which is even for the high school.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
There's no I mean, my daughter's in fifth grade. She
doesn't have anything in common with an eighth grader. I mean,
it's like two different species of people. Are you Were
you a Scott Skyhawk?

Speaker 6 (04:00):
No, where'd you go to from?

Speaker 5 (04:01):
Logan?

Speaker 7 (04:02):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Logan?

Speaker 5 (04:02):
Sorry?

Speaker 4 (04:02):
I thought you were from.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
Moving My bad dude?

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Do you want you want me to turn this.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
The other end of this table? So so you couldn't fight.

Speaker 5 (04:10):
TJ is from boon Cap, but he was a I
think uh Sherman tide ers one in one of the schools. Now,
I'm a Logan wildcat man. Actually I grew I spent
the first up through sixth grade. I my family lived
in the Man area.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
Okay, so you might have been a hillbilly well, but.

Speaker 5 (04:28):
Then we transferred to Logan, So I call myself a
billy cat. I got so I graduated from Logan. I
was in Man with people like Rupy Phillips, certain people
like that of my There's a.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
Little restaurant on there called Keith since one of my
absolute favorites, Anthony Bourdain, went there. One of the better
burgers in the game.

Speaker 5 (04:43):
It is. It is great hot dogs too. They do
have a great Mall Dog named after his grandmother, M A. W.
The Mall Dog. So thank you for coming to the
discussion between mister mccusky myself. All right, so let's let's
move on. Big news made yesterday, made not not only
news here in West Virginia. But I was told correctly,
you were on Fox News last night.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
This morning, but it wasn't actually about our lawsuit. We
were talking about some other things this morning on a
Fox but we announced a really important lawsuit against a
company called express Scripts. And what express Scripts is is
a pharmacy benefit manager, and we have sued them for
their role in being sort of an architect and a

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key player on the opioid crisis. And a lot of
people are starting to sort of learn what pharmacy benefit
managers are. But in the coming weeks and months, we'll
have a lot more to talk about in our lawsuit.
But suffice to say that these folks have sort of
weaseled their way into our healthcare system, and since they've
gotten there, it's pretty noticeable how much our drug prices
have gone up. And they were the only people that

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held the data between prescribers and pharmacies, and so there
was one group of people who was able to maximize
the damage by understanding how many pills were being prescribed
and to whom they were being prescribed and they failed
in their duty to to to to follow state law,
to follow federal law, and we're gonna hold them accountable

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for it.

Speaker 5 (06:11):
Now, this is a little bit different for me, and
you can correct me if I'm wrong, because with this
express script service, and we're going to break it down
to exactly what it was that they are alleged to
have done. Normally, when you see these lawsuits, it's against
pharmaceutical companies. You know, it's against the you know, the
all the big all the big players and things of
that nature. But I'm not saying I don't want to
go out and you would know this for sure. Is

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this at least one of the first times that a
distributor so to speak, and that's not even distributors.

Speaker 4 (06:38):
What's really interesting services I guess they were. They were
these PBMs were created as a middleman. And you know,
they're all now significantly bigger than the pharmaceutical companies that
they helped sell drugs for. They're bigger than the pharmacies
that actually created them. Right, So CVS Care Mark, their
PBM is bigger than CVS. And the reason is is

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because our healthcare system, for a myriad of reasons, when
we don't have time to talk about this today. But
it's so complicated that they sort of were the ones
that figured out how to do the paperwork right, right,
And this is maybe twenty five thirty years ago that
this really came in to being. And you know, when
we sued the manufacturers, they said, well, we didn't know
who was taking them, right, all we did was make

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the pills. Somebody else gave them to So that was
their defense. And then the pharmacy said, well, we were
just fulfilling the prescriptions. The people in the middle who
were really bridging that gap were these pharmacy benefit managers,
and so there's an argument to be made that they're
more culpable than anybody.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
What was it that led your office to look at
them specifically? A lot of.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
Things, but not the least of which was you know,
I spent eight years in the state Auditor's office, which
gave me very very unique insights into a lot of
things that the state spends money on, not a lot
of things, actually all the things that the state spends
money on. And then also, you know, just in the
in the wake of the election and preparing to take over,

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you know, we we we spent a lot of time
meeting with lawyers all around the country, asking, you know,
what are the what are the things that I should
be looking at, what are the what are the emerging
trends in some of these sort of large scale consumer complaints,
And this one kept coming up over and over and
over again. These PBMs, especially in a place like West Virginia,

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really caused a lot of harm in the opioid crisis.
And when we started looking into it, it was pretty
obvious that this was that the state of West Virginia
needs to hold these people accountable for what they did
to our our families and to the sort of hopefulness
that West Virginian's uh used to enjoy before the the
enormous opioid crisis sort of took over our persona.

Speaker 5 (08:46):
And look, you know, we all know what a crisis
that it that it was, but if we can rewind
back to what the mid nineties, is this when we
first started.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
Yeah, I would say that that's probably that would be
a good estimate.

Speaker 5 (08:58):
Yeah, And you know it was the way that it's
been very well documented. I know there was that particular
series that Michael Keaton was a part of that I
thought was very very good.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
The Akuoke, director of Drug Control Policy here in West Virginia,
is the person that that was basically right.

Speaker 5 (09:14):
Yeah, and it's you know, there was I guess we've
always had an issue with drugs in our societies since
the beginning of time, and I feel not to be
defeatists that we always will. But this was a little
bit of a different situation because this was something that
a lot of people, and especially in West Virginia, where
you have a very labor intensive workforce and we're coal
miners and we're loggers and we're steel workers and things

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of that nature. You have an injury and you go
to a physician that you think okay, just like if
you have a sore throat or a stomach virus or whatever.
You go and you get whatever you need and you
go on. This was the first time we'd really seen
anything that was coming directly from the people that we
think JB are supposed to help us.

Speaker 4 (09:57):
Yeah, I mean, and if you look back through the documents,
like from Purdue Pharma, and this is the first time
that the drug dealer involved was a federally regulated company.
Right now, I mean, normally is a gay on the corner,
correct and so the drugs here were coming from a
place where people thought they were safe, and the companies
pretty noticeably knew that they were addictive, much more so

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than the mail.

Speaker 5 (10:18):
To look at the memos, it really.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
Is disgusting it and it makes me physically mad and
almost shaking when I think back at like, what were
they when they knew? They didn't pause at all. They
immediately hit the gas the minute they figured out that
they could make an enormous amount of money off of
our suffering specifically, and you read the emails where they

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make fun of us as pillbillies, and they're not just
killing us, they're making fun of us while they're doing it.
I mean as a West Virginian or just as a
human being in general. That kind of callousness is it's
just so brutal that it's hard to really believe that
human beings are capable of that. So what happens next
is next is uh, the company that we've sued is

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is no small endeavor. They will have very very high
paid and white shoe what do we call them Philadelphia
lawyers around here that will descend upon the northern district
of West Virginia or in front of Judge Bailey and
Wheeling and we're gonna we're gonna beat them down.

Speaker 5 (11:20):
And the timeline are we looking at your name?

Speaker 4 (11:23):
It's hard to really say, but you know, these kind
of cases take a really long time. And my hope
is is that Express Scripts will read our complaint, We'll
get through some discovery and they'll understand that that you know,
this can go a lot easier if they come to
the negotiating table and they say, look, we know we
did wrong. We they are a contractor with the State
of West Virginia. Express Scripts is currently a vendor with

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the State of West Virginia. And if if they look
at at our people and and and just you know,
they'll say, we think we can come up with a
financial package that is compensating you for what happened, and
we can avoid a long drawn out, miserable situation that's
gonna end in them lose pretty badly.

Speaker 5 (12:01):
And you had a great quote that you did on
the interview when you broke this story on talk Line
with what Wilson Meadows yesterday. And I don't remember exactly
word for word, but basically what you were saying. I've
heard it like ten thousand times since in which is
the great quote on your part. You basically said, no
amount of money is going to replace a grieving mother
with her son, or a son or daughter with their mother.

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No amount of money is really going to replace that,
no matter what they come up.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
But it's the only metric we can use. Right. I
cannot bring back the life that that somebody lost, but
what we can do is hold these folks accountable and
the only way that our legal system allows us to
and that is to extract enough money from them that
we can start to heal going forward, meaning what resources

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do we need to make sure that this is the
last generation of people that this crisis affects. And I
think that needs to be everyone's number one goal is
if we're still talking about this opioid crisis in twenty years,
help us Because we got a billion dollars in a
fund to help us do this, and these cases that
we're filing are going to go a long way, I
think to help it as well.

Speaker 5 (13:06):
So we had a text here somebody asked about going
after doctors and I mean, this has been done, not necessarily,
but you know, you've only been Attorney General for a
short time, But I mean I can go back twenty
twenty five years, thirty years ago, maybe twenty five when
doctors were being used. Look, I'm from southern West Virginia, Okay,
and we had places down there in the late nineties,

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early two thousands that didn't even attempt to look like
an actual medical facility. It was cash only, and there
were lines of cars, and there were lines at five
point thirty in the morning. There were people down there.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
But there has.

Speaker 5 (13:40):
Been a great effort in going after physicians in this
as well.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
Yeah, absolutely, and that that's a task of the United
States Attorney's Office. And so the physicians, when you were
holding them accountable for this, that is a criminal act.
And so the United States Attorney here in the Southern District,
in the Northern District as well, for the last twelve
or fourteen years or so, have been very very active
in finding the doctors who contributed to this problem and

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finding them criminally liable for the things that the pain
that they inflicted on their patients.

Speaker 5 (14:12):
All right, So what else is on your radar? You
got some of the big things coming up. I mean,
there's a couple of things that are on the horizon
maybe you can't discuss yet. You and I had a
private conversation yesterday. I don't want it, but.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
Very secretive, very cia right, Dave. So we've got a
big hearing with the NC double A today. We got
four players that were found ineligible by the NC DOUBLEA
that were recruited and offered scholarships by our football team.
I think what you're going to see out of that
hearing today, and we're an amicus. Our office stepped in
to support the players on the football team there is

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that the stories of these young men who were denied
eligibility by the NC double A are amazing, and the
reasons for their lack of eligibility are scurliest, to say
the very least.

Speaker 5 (14:57):
If you like that word, to write that down.

Speaker 4 (15:00):
And I feel very hopeful that we're going to get
a few of these guys back on the football team
because they deserve an opportunity to play. And these are
young men who have kids, and they have financial obligations,
and some of them miss some time because they had
to pay back medical bills that the NCAA sent them
after they transferred. I mean, it's really the kind of

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stuff that when you read it and you're like, you know,
this is a twenty three year old guys trying to
finish up schools, trying to do better for his family.
Probably better to air on the side of letting that
guy go showcases talents and get in the NFL A
lot of.

Speaker 5 (15:33):
News coming out of your office. I appreciate you taking
time to be here, and we're going to have you
back later today on Metro News Midday because in the
world of what you got going on, a lot could
change of the next four.

Speaker 4 (15:43):
To five and we know that when Amanda's here, the
interview is a lot smarter. Usually it's tighter. I here,
there's less fluff, and it's a better interview for the people,
and it's a better interview for me.

Speaker 5 (15:52):
Quite frank, I don't even listen to the show most
of the time when I'm doing the show, I don't
want to listen to it.

Speaker 4 (15:57):
It is nice when Amanda's here because you don't really
even have to say anything. No, I don't Yeah, I.

Speaker 5 (16:00):
Can't get a word in anteloise. I'm we Kaddie, of course.

Speaker 4 (16:03):
Jorney General JB. Mccowsky, Dave, thank you so much. Everybody.
Have a great morning out there.

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so do we not care that the governor and his
wife for opioid lobbyist or at least work for a
company who exasperated the opioid crisis and that company hasn't
faced repercussions from the state. Says it's extrous. Welcome to
a good friend, rob reeal for good morning Sister Station
ninety six to one KWS Superstar Country. Yes, sir, hey
doing man.

Speaker 6 (18:49):
I can't complain. Sometimes I still do. But anyway, life's
been good to me so far. Uh so uh we
got radio thon, yes coming up. We were just talking
off the air. It feels as those is kind of
snuck up on us because it's been such a busy
summer around here at eleven eleven Virginia Street East. But
we are going to spend two days atu WVU Medicine

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Children's in Morgantown. Up on top the Hosteler Center on
the tenth floor. That beautiful view of the stadium that
seats sixty thousand people. I paint that picture in your
head so that I can then tell you one hundred
thousand children served by WVU Medicine Children's in the past
year one and nearly nearly two times filling that stadium

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with the number of kids that the Radiothon helps each
and every year.

Speaker 5 (19:38):
And this is one of those things that we do
that of course, all of our stations here in the
building are involved in it, but we have all of
our stations around the state. I'm involved in this as well.
And it's again when we say this, it's not just
a tagline. You know that we're proud to live to
where a West Virginia based company. Yes, and that means
something to us. And all you know the state other

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stations do great things, not trying to poo poo on
them in any way, but this is something that's really
really near and dear to our heart. And again there's
a reason why we're doing this for in state. You know,
for many years we did it with an out of
state and then we had a great relationship there, but
now we're doing something to help kids in state.

Speaker 6 (20:20):
There are great things that are happening at that place
in Minnesota, or that place in Memphis or New York, LA.
There are lots of wonderful hospitals all around the country.
Doing amazing things. But the idea that we have a
world class hospital in our backyard with a level four
nick Q that's the highest level of medical care for
newborns and premature infants available. We're talking West Virginia's only

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pediatric card pediatric cardiac surgery program, neurosurgery program for pediatrics.

Speaker 5 (20:51):
It's the best of the best.

Speaker 6 (20:52):
And we have it right here in the Mountain state.

Speaker 5 (20:55):
Indeed, we do talking to Rob Reel Superstar Country ninety
six one kwus about our radio on. So what's the
plan of attack?

Speaker 6 (21:02):
So, actually, there's gonna be a little bit of a
pregame for me. Mid State Chevrolet, mid State Ford Northside Automotive.
They are part of our Cares for Kids radiothon. If
folks buy a new or pre owned vehicle from them
in the month of August, they're donating one hundred dollars.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
For each of those vehicles.

Speaker 6 (21:21):
So we're gonna stop buy and see them two until
four tomorrow, kind of a little pregame party, and then
bright and Early I go on the air five am
from the Hostetler Center on Thursday morning, and there will
be stories of healing and hope.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
I know there sometimes.

Speaker 6 (21:36):
People think, oh, these are these are so depressing and sad,
and there are certainly sad and scary moments. But what
I want folks to take away from this, what I
hope everybody will take away from this, is the miracles
that happen every day, the healing, the hope, the bright,
healthy kids with whom we'll get to talk over those
couple of days sharing their stories of what goes on

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at Believe You Medicine Children.

Speaker 5 (22:01):
And again, it's a very good point that you bring up, Robert,
because people think, you know, these are all going to
be doom and gloom time stories, and there are those,
as you said, but man, there's so much hope that
comes out of that facility on a daily basis.

Speaker 6 (22:15):
Not every story is going to have a happy ending,
but we're going to hopefully share as many of the
ones as we can as we have time that do
have happy endings. Amy Daly, who is the President and
CEO of Children's Miracle Network, long before she worked for CMN,
she was a CMN parent. Her two kids who are
now knocking on the door of thirty were premies at

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a CMN hospital, and so this kind of comes full
circle for her. I get to talk with her. I
think on Thursday is when she's going to be into chat.
So even the folks who are doing the work come
by this. It's deep, deeply rooted in their souls.

Speaker 5 (22:56):
Yeah, indeed it is. And so what listeners are going
to here on the air starting when Thurtursday morning? Yep,
but you'll get things started, as you said, a lot
of Yeah I'm on at five Thursday morning, we'll kind
of ring the bell to start things officially at six.

Speaker 6 (23:12):
That's when guests will start coming in and we'll start
having more of those of those stories, there's some really
amazing ones that I've gotten to I mean, I've got
a pilon notes in front of me now that I
think you're going to be amazed and astounded and hopefully
moved to become a superstar miracle maker along with us.

Speaker 5 (23:29):
Give us a I mean, just off the top of
your head, just even if it's not when you have
in front of you, give us a couple of stories
or one. How's that.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
So?

Speaker 6 (23:39):
I've gone through about twelve over the past couple of days,
and I think you'll get to hear each of them.
What struck me was a couple three of them were
accident stories. So when we think of WVU Medicine Children,
maybe we think of those premies and we think of
whether it's kids like Brayson who just that they have

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scoliosis and have to make the trip up and start
going to clinics there, or kids with heart problems. But
even Chloe's story about being in an accident and her
airbag didn't deploy and her face went right into the dashboard,
And speaking of somebody who's had some reconstructive surgery, they
did the best they could do. It's the Department of Defense.

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I mean, this is as good. This is actually better
for those of you who can see my face. This
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to put a child's life back on track from an
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They're just regular five year old boys. If you saw
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you at WVU Medicine Children's I.

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Mean there's so many amazing stories rob that had come
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And again we'll we'll call on you as we always do,
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Can come through all of the activities that we do,
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And we'll be you'll be hearing on the air again.
This is going to be on all of our stations
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And look, you can stop by the studio here during
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And the thing I want to stress most about that
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It doesn't pay for me to make the trip up there,
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There are folks who sponsor that sort of thing so
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It's good stuff and we're looking forward to it. And
unlike last time you did something, you don't have to walk.
We're actually going to give you a stationed vehicle to
get it, so you don't have to walk to Morgantown
like you did last time.

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Yeah, about that in my big mouth. I hope that
is evidence to folks how emotionally invested I get in
these sort of things that we get into, these sort
of things that I kind.

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Of shot my mouth off about.

Speaker 6 (27:21):
If we beat last year, I'll walk the check to
Morgantown and y'all came through. And I'm nothing if not
a man of my word, but I will be minding
my p's and ques a little bit better this time,
and maybe I won't say anything quite So, what's the
word foolhardy?

Speaker 5 (27:38):
Let's go with full foolhardy, as my grandmother used to
say in that typical you know from Wyoming County dialec
this yet, don't let your mouth write a check that
your blank can't cash. And that's basically what you did.
But you cashed it.

Speaker 6 (27:51):
Yeah, a great, big, comically large check. Or as my
grandmother would have actually did say to me and her English,
once you ain't the sharpest taco on the tree.

Speaker 5 (27:59):
Is exactly exactly right. So again we'll get things started.
You're gonna be up at mid State mid State Chevrolet
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So a little pregame with Tim and the folks at
mid State Chevrolette.

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They're good, they're great people.

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out there and watch your mouth this time.

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Watch your mouth because the thing about promotion like that
is is that you know you got to top it.
So you know, you walk to Morgantown last fall and
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Welcome in to the show.

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West Virginia Secretary of State Chris Warner. Now, all of
the county clerks and other election officials are gathering for
their annual conference. And this is something that is done
every year by code, I believe, with the Secretary of
State's office. His office will be there, the staff will
be there, all fifty five county clerks, so their representatives.
They all gather for trainings and things of that nature.

(32:43):
But there's a lot in the news as far as
elections go, and it pertains to President Trump. The President
has a real issue with mail in ballots and voting machines,
and the Secretary is concerned about the voting machine aspect.
He talked about that on this show one day last

(33:05):
week when they had him on talking about pollworker recruitment,
and also on Metro News Midday, and he's been on
talk Line as well, and he's got a concern about
the President's executive orders, but he says talking about Secretary
of Warner, that he's not as much concerned about the
mail in ballots in West Virginia because of the way

(33:25):
mail in ballots are actually done in West Virginia. There
is nothing is one hundred percent foolproof, as you know,
but there's some added steps in West Virginia that the
other states don't necessarily do. So we're going to talk
to Secretary Warner about that. Plus, the West Virginia Chamber
of Commerce is gearing up for their annual Business Summit
next week at the Greenbrier. We'll talk to Caitlin George

(33:47):
from the Chamber about that little programming. Note, the talk
line boys are going to be there, I think, broadcasting
live at least one day at the business summit next week.
Wilson and Meadows will be there live, not sending me
to the Greenbrier. There was an incident a couple of
years ago, and I can't talk about it. I'm kidding,
but they're gonna be there, so again, anyway, we're gonna

(34:09):
talk to Kaylin George about that. There was a virtual
hearing held last night and there's a lot of talk,
of course about data centers and things of that nature.
This virtual hearing was about one that's proposed for Mingo County,
and we're going to talk about that. It's also another
one of these data centers that's being proposed for Putnam County,

(34:29):
and so we're going to get into that story. Jeff
Jenkins will have the news and more Metro News Midday
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anchor a Mande Baron and me on this show tomorrow.
And I did a little digging on this yesterday. I
talked to some folks. Thank you to former Legislator Rick
Stayton who was able to help me kind of put

(34:49):
this thing together. Tomorrow, there's going to be a town
hall put on by some local Democrats. The event is
Sunday and it starts at two o'clock at the Woman's
Club of Charleston. That's sixteen hundred Virginia Street East. And
we're going to talk to a couple of the organizers
about that particular event. And you know, there's been a
lot in the news about town halls here as of

(35:13):
late and if you look around the country, Now, this
is an event, we're not expecting any problems that, but
you look at some of the town halls that have
been held across the country with good reason there. I
completely get why some of our elected officials I've called
them in the task a couple of times, but but
I'm gonna be honest with you, the way that a

(35:34):
lot of these town halls are held, it becomes a
safety issue. Well, this is not that kind of event. Okay,
they are inviting other pretty much all elected officials to
be there. I don't know who's going to show up,
but the event is this Sunday at the Women's Club
in Charles. We'll talk to the organizers about that. Plus
your good friend Millie Snyder is going to be stopping
by as well. Also just added to the show, there's

(35:57):
an event happening this Saturday and it's called bumper Fest.
And I was able to talk to a lovely lady
but a name a two D Taylor a little bit
before the show this morning, and they're having a bit
of a fundraiser. We're to get into all of that,
but there's going to be some WVU legends held at

(36:18):
this particular event. Meg Bulger is going to be there,
Major Harris and they're working on a couple of others.
So well we'll get into that event coming up on
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and Pat White stopped by Rob's table to speak and
to encourage donations. Well we'll put it out there. Put
it out there, all right, mister Reeal, if you're listed
in your office, you have a request to get Coach
Rod and get Pat White to stop by. And again
KWS is going to be there. I think Logan Scott
from V one hundred is going to be there as well.

(36:58):
This is one of those things at all of our
events or all of our stations, I should say, take
part in. Speaking of big events coming up, do you
want to remind you about the annual Paint the Capital
City Green event sponsored by the Marshall University Quarterback Club
of Charleston, happening Thursday six o'clock at the Marshall University
Bill No. Flight School up at West Virginia International Yeager Airport.
I'm going to be serving as the MC. Looking forward

(37:20):
to that. Marshall coaches, Tony Gibson, Corney Jackson, Juliet Folks
and others will be there. The new athletic director, Gerald
Harrison's going to be there as well. I have not
get a chance to meet mister Harrison, but I'm gonna
tell you what after that press conference he had when
he was hired a couple of weeks ago, he had
me ready to run through a wall. I mean, this
guy's a fiery guy. He's going to be there. He's

(37:41):
i think officially went on the job this past weekend
once the ink was drying, the contract and everything, so
he's going to be there as well. The voice of
the Thundering and Heard Steve Cotton will be there as
well as we paint the Capital City green Thursday night.
It's always a lot of fun. I enjoy being the
MC of this thing I've done along with Steve. Animal
from the Mountain the last couple of years. Animals not

(38:03):
gonna be able to be there this year because the
Mountain has a live broadcast that night from Fife Street
Brewery on Summer Street here in Charleston, so he'll be
down there for that. I'll be doing this solo, looking
forward to it shockly from the Mountain. Will be there
as well, so we hope that you can join us.
There are limited, limited amount of tickets available. As I
said on yesterday's show when we were talking to Steve Cotton,

(38:23):
you show up at six o'clock up at the airport,
you're probably not going to get in. So what you
need to do is just look up the Big Green.
I think it's Marshall dot Edu slash Big Green. You
can get tickets there because they are going quickly. This
thing sells out every year. My good friend Chef Paul
is going to be providing the food, plenty of food,
plenty of drink as we get ready for what we
hope is going to be a great season of Marshall

(38:43):
University sports. And again it's paint the Capital City green
Thursday night at six o'clock up to bill No Flight
School at West Virginia International Yeager Airport, and those folks
up there always roll out the red carpet there maybe
I should say green carpet. They'll have some airplanes on
display and more so if you get an opportunity, stop
by and cheg it out. I am looking forward to
seeing you up there this Thursday.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
Night, Texas.

Speaker 5 (39:06):
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my lifetime. He's done a lot of positive things to
make us stronger and bring peace to the world. Thanks says.
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Speaking of food, as I'd frequently like to speak about,
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He's opening or should I say reopening Danny's barbecue stand

(39:51):
on Courier Now. He's actually turning over the keys to
the restaurant to a guy from Beckley by the name
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the Beckley area, going to make his first, as far
as I know, his first ventures into Charleston. Danny says
he's going to be there every day and he's going

(40:12):
to be teaching bj the secrets of his famous barbecue,
the ribs, the sides, everything else. And I'm going to
be honest, as I said on the show yesterday, the
sides are just as good as the barbecue in my opinion.
And don't sleep when he has it on that smoked
chicken soup, the chicken noodles. The smoked chicken noodles was
absolutely fantastic. It's set to open toward the end of

(40:32):
the week, the first week of September, that's Labor Day week,
and I for one am looking forward to it. Fox Shield,
Tex says day there was an amazing moment in Morgantown
back on Saturday. A member of the Mouth Her football
team after practice was back on Saturday, co head strength
coach Parker Whiteman fulfilled the request of a player of

(40:52):
the Mouth And football team by performing his baptism with
his team there with him. Parents beside yourself. These are
the young man you want your children to look up
to for leadership and guidance. You heard me talk about
this a little bit on the show yesterday. But Mayor
good One told me this a couple of years ago,

(41:13):
and I believe her now. The mayor on this program said,
people get fired up about potholes or snow removal, or
homeless issues, infrastructure, etc. Etc. But the things that get
people fired up with the most. And this is not

(41:34):
exclusive to Charleston. It happens everywhere. Trick or treat and
Christmas parades. Remember all the controversy over the Christmas parade,
and there's people The Christmas Parade used to be held
in Charleston on Saturday afternoon. They moved it to Thursday nights.
People got all upset about that. Well, apparently the big

(41:54):
outrage Danny and I talked about this a little bit yesterday,
the big outrage over the last couple of days in
kna Ac count The county has made the decision to
do their trick or treating on Thursday, October thirtieth instead
of Friday the thirty first, which is actually Halloween night.
And they did so from what I have read, as
to not compete with high school football, and people have

(42:19):
lost their collective minds over this. I am serious about this.
This is what we have to worry about, I guess.
And as I pointed out yesterday on Midday, there is
no trick or treat police, parents, grandparents. Your kids can
trick or treat anytime they want. They can trick or

(42:40):
treat in April. They can go on Christmas Eve if
they want to. It doesn't matter. So if you want
to send your kids out on Halloween nights, sent thement
on Halloween night, do whatever you want it just I
guess it kind of makes me scratch my head sometimes.
And you know what else makes me scratch my head
from time the time. I was reading last night on

(43:04):
one local community here in the area and how they
planned to handle.

Speaker 3 (43:10):
Traffic flow when school starts.

Speaker 5 (43:12):
And it's already started, of course here in Kanawa County,
but this was in Putnham County, which I think school
starts in Putnam County on Thursday. I think, and I
thought to myself, if only there were a way to
safely transport kids to a school that didn't involve parents

(43:35):
or grandparents actually taking the kids to school. If only
we had a way to get kids to school, maybe
some large mode of transportation. Maybe I don't know, maybe
yellow in color. If only we had a way to

(43:57):
do that. What an interesting concept. Nine to fifty one.
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This one of Twokanawa County deputies injured last night while
trying to serve felte warrants on a suspect in Cedar Grove.
It happened last night night around seven at the gomart
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is continuing, and I had some conversations earlier in the
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going to try to have he and Joie Garon of
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about Selango light the night. Uh, Texas Thursday nights or
middle school football nights. Well, every night is something, you know,
it's Thursday night is middle school night, Friday night is

(48:15):
high school night. Then they said, well, we don't want
to do it trick or treating. I'm talking about on
Saturday night because the people are out partying or whatever.
Don't want to do it on Sunday night because that's
a that's a church night. Wednesday night is it also
a church night? So that leaves Monday and Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (48:29):
And again that's not.

Speaker 5 (48:30):
Gonna make some people happy either. You can't make everybody happy.

Speaker 3 (48:34):
Texas Day.

Speaker 5 (48:35):
They don't want the football stands to be empty. That's
the reason for the dumb decision to have trick or
treating on Thursday while Halloween is on a Friday. This
isn't Texas. High school football comes after trick or treating,
it says a Texter. Tex says let's all send the
kids to Dave Allen's house on Christmas Eve to trick
or treat. Well, we don't allow kids in our neighborhood,

(48:55):
so so that that won't happen. Not not an issue
in my neighborhood, Texas. Dave as a former school administrator,
you can talk until you're blue in the face. Nothing
ever stred up parents like changing the Halloween parties, time day,
costume restrictions or root of a parade. It's you are right,
You're right. A situation happened last night. We had a

(49:18):
car crash through a building on the west side here
in Charleston. I'm told that the driver crashed through a
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didn't come from police. That info actually came from a
coworker of ours here at eleven eleven who drove by it.
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Hein't doing man, You just want people to put their
kids on the bus.

Speaker 5 (50:08):
Just put them on the bus, or do or just
do away with buses one way or the other, because
my tax dollars are paying for it.

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So you know, I actually get a check from the
county school system because my kids don't use the bus.

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I don't know why that is.

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It has something to do with my kids go to
a private institution. I get a check. I didn't know
what it was. I didn't cash it for the longest time.
I made a call to the board's office.

Speaker 5 (50:30):
It's legit. Wait a minute, hold on, you live in Puttnam,
cam you're telling me that county, that Putnam County Schools. Okay,
I guess they're reimbursing you. I guess that's what they're
doing because I don't I don't know. Then I should
get a check for not having kids.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
I mean, Ryan, can you look into that for us?

Speaker 15 (50:47):
I mean's really trying to get you going from the
legal not a lot of money. It's like twenty five
dollars or something, but I mean, yeah, I get I
get it.

Speaker 5 (50:53):
Well, then I should get a check for not having
kids because my tax dollars are going and I don't
get anything. My cats don't ride the bus, my CAP's
on leave the house.

Speaker 15 (51:01):
Well, I mean, you know, I thought it was a
hoax at first I had and then I got another one,
and so finally I called somebody and they're like, I
didn't press for a deeper answer, but yeah, they're legit.
It has to do you know, your kids don't ride
the bus, and I didn't dig deeper after that. All right,
all right, I'm going to have to reach you into
the legal department here or unpaid legal advisor for Metro.

Speaker 5 (51:20):
Who's Harvey Payton? Mister Payton, if you're listening, you're Tom Payton,
are listening. I want to look into this. I want
to I want my I want my money. I shouldn't
have said anything. You're eve going to try to get
my twenty five dollars check taken away from me? Aren't
you no want I just want my twenty five dollar check.
I want my twenty five dollars check. What's coming up
on the show today, Man so.

Speaker 15 (51:38):
Big interview at ten oh six, we have the CEO
of Majestic Care that is the subsidiary of the Marx
Development Group, the company that is buying these four West
Virginia State owned long term care facilities. We're going to
talk to that gentleman by the name of Paul Pruett.
They have fifty five centers across America that they run already,
so we're going to talk to him, try to underst

(52:00):
stand their plan for these facilities. How will patients be affected,
How will employees be affected?

Speaker 5 (52:06):
One of the big questions I have.

Speaker 15 (52:07):
How do you take an operation or operations that are
losing six million bucks a year and still make it
profitable for you to buy them? So we're going to
get into all of that. Literally looking forward to that interview.
What else you got today? What else do we have today?
So we're going to talk about that incident in Fayette
County yesterday, that murder suicide incident. We'll also have Delegate
John Hardy from the Panhandle on what it's like to

(52:28):
live in the Eastern Panhandle and commute into DC amid.

Speaker 5 (52:32):
All this crime. All right, looking forward to it. I'll
be back later today with Metro News Midday powered by Selango,
Law thirty News and Tonight Live anchor Amanda Bearon and
me coming up on the show later today. Back on
this show tomorrow. Millie Snyder will be here more on
this Sunday's Democratic town hall in Charleston.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
Plus bumper Fest.

Speaker 5 (52:47):
Went on in Cistinville this weekend. We'll see you later
till then, Have fun and love somebody.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
I want my check?

Speaker 8 (53:00):
Yeah, why did you?

Speaker 5 (53:05):
Hs amninty six point five.

Speaker 2 (53:06):
That's in Charleston one oh four point five Cross Lane
on w VRC Media station. We're proud to live here too,