The Dave Allen Show – Career Fair Opportunities and Second Amendment Voices

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Shouldn't be a good discussion. That's coming up a little bit later on. Plus, several things in the news to get to, and your calls and texts are always welcome. Biggly, pigly, wiggly, hotline, 304, 3458. Tony Vitale, Text 3049-55508. Want to tell you about a big event. It's going on next Thursday night at the Putnam Career and Technical Center, which is in Eleanor. It's called the Hometown Advantage Career Fair, and it's a joint project between the Putnam County Development Authority and the Putnam Career and Technical Center. Morgan Tenney is the executive director of the Development Authority, and she joins us this morning along with CD Caldwell, who's the director of career and technical education in Putnam County Schools. Good morning, and welcome to both you folks. Good morning, Dave. Hello, sir. How are you doing today? I am doing fine. Thank you both for being here today. Now, the prevailing mindset, guys, has been that you have to leave West Virginia to have a good career. And you hope to prove otherwise. Morgan, I'm going to start with you. You spend a lot of time in schools, and we know CD obviously does, more on him a little bit. But would you agree? That has been right or wrong, a popular opinion in the past, Morgan, that you have to leave West Virginia in order to have a good career. Absolutely. We've noticed that so many young people and even folks my age have left the state because they feel like they need to have a good paying job outside of West Virginia, or maybe they go to a university outside of the state and then they never come home. But what's interesting, David, with our work in economic development, we meet frequently with existing businesses located in Putnam County and around the state. and they all have the same need. They all need a skilled workforce. But when we would turn around and go into our school system and meet with some of our students, we'd ask them, what do you want to do when you graduate? And typically they would give you some answer about how they're going to leave and hope to be successful elsewhere. So we realized it's really not an opportunity problem because there are so many opportunities for good paying jobs here in West Virginia. It's a communication problem. So that's why we're partnering with Putnam County Schools and Puttum Career and Technical Center to just bring awareness to the fact that you do not have to leave West Virginia for a good paying career. And CDLS is the same question of you. Have you seen that in your experience in the past, like Morgan said, that the misconception in some points is that students have to leave in order to get a good paying job? I first started at the Putton Career and Technical Center about eight, nine years ago. When I first got there, there were certain jobs that we were training for that there wasn't much job opportunity in our area. So, you know, I'm helping students trying to find out where they can go to do the job they want to do. Today, the jobs are here. The jobs are around us. Part of our job is helping find these students' jobs, how to find...

post-secondary education for them to get the job they want. The jobs are here. Last year our students in our work-based learning program made almost a million dollars from January to June in our work-based learning program that we have for high school students. And I'll tell you, you know, I have seen the work that you folks do out there at the Career Technical Center in Eleanor and Putnam County. And it's absolutely amazing. You're turning out some really good quality people. And we hope that we can keep them here. And there's plenty of opportunities for them to stay here because here's what I've found, guys. And I've spent time of public schools, you know, talking to young students, whether I was doing the Get a Life program, Morgan, that you're very familiar with through the treasurer's office in the Putnam Chamber and some of these different things. When I was in state government as well, I spent a lot of time in schools. And you talk to a lot of these young people. Many of them actually don't want to leave West Virginia. They actually like it here, whether they're the outdoors type or whatever the case may be. Their families here, they don't always want to go away. And I think it's a good point, Morgan, that you bring up, that sometimes it's a communication issue, is that they think these things aren't available. But they are available, as you guys have talked about, Morgan. Yeah, absolutely. And to highlight something CD said, you know, what someone grows up thinking they want to do may not be something they can do in West Virginia. You know, if they want to get into, for some reason, Dave, it seems like so many of our young ladies want to be marine biologists when I asked them. I'm like, I don't know where this is coming from, but you're more than likely not going to be a marine biologist and landlocked Mountain State here. What we're trying to do in this collaboration with Hometown Advantage is tell our young people and their families what careers are here. So at a younger age, they can start thinking about what is available. And again, to CED's point, if we're teaching for things that aren't here, then we're basically exporting our talent. So what we want to do is we want to educate them for what's in right in our backyard. And that's why we have such great collaboration with Toyota, for example, with like the 4T program, which is production for high school students. And then we have the fame program that skilled maintenance at a post-secondary level. We're trying to show our local residents that there are good paying careers. It may just not be, you know, I think I've said this to you before, Dave. It may not be what you thought you were going to grow up to be, right? Right. But there's good paying careers that are here. We're talking again with Morgan Tenney and CD Calwell, and we're going to get to their actual event that they have, which is coming up next week. I do want to remind you, though, the Dave Island Show on 580 Live is brought to you in part by Morgan to Morgan America's largest injury law firm. If you're injured, visit for the people.com. All right. So next week, big event, Thursday the 23rd, 5 until 8 at the Career and Tech Center in Elinor. And this has gone on for how many gears, CD? Is this thing going on?

This is the second annual event. Okay, I thought it was older than that. I apologize. So this is the second one. We've been doing career fairs for years. Right. We'd have them in the middle of the day. Uh-huh. And the employers weren't getting what they wanted. The students, it wasn't what I for... wanted it to be. I wanted something with community engagement. I wanted something for the students that really wanted to invest their time, talking to employers to have a space. I wanted a place for those students to bring their families, just not our current students. We had middle school parents bringing their students last year to not only talk to employers, but to go in our classrooms. Our classrooms are going to be open. So that way, kind of shows full circle of... you know, training at our school and then being able to talk to employers about, you know, what skills they need. So with the help of the Development Authority and us, we've turned this into community event that's good for everyone in our region, just not Putton County. And again, it's going to be next Thursday night from 5 until 8 to the Career and Tech Center in Elvador. And you've extended it an hour, right? Because didn't it end last year at 7? It did, yeah. So we kicked this off last year and we had it from five to seven. But what was amazing, Dave, we had over 50 local companies attend who were actively hiring. They all had a position that needed filled. So we knew that we had great employer work, employer turnout, but we didn't know how many people were going to show up that were going to be job seekers. And what was incredible was in a two-hour time span, we had over 1,200 people come through the door at the Fun and Career and Technical Center. I mean, we were just blown away. So we realized this year, okay, we've got to am things up a little bit. We're extending an hour. We have a family fun zone this year. We noticed a few people had to bring their kids along. Kids are absolutely welcome, and we actually have an entire area that's going to be available for them with a bounce house. Thanks to Family Wealth Group for sponsoring that. So we're trying to expand upon our year last year. And, you know, Dave, I've got a compliment CD here. He'll punch me across the table. But, you know, I'm a graduate of a Putnam County High School. And I never stepped foot in Putnam Career and Technical Center as a student. So the fact that we have students that are interviewing, that want to go to Putnam Career and Technical Center, and maybe even a waiting list for some of the classes at Putnam Career and Technical Center just shows the change in that perception over the last 20 years. And I just want to commend him for that. But this also serves as an open house, as he mentioned. So even for people who just want to know what it looks like, come see a welding class, come see the carpentry class. Like it doesn't have to be just for job seekers. It can be anybody who's just wanting to understand what we have in our community at the Career and Tech Center. And then also what do we have in our region in terms of available careers? And again, the event is going to be next Thursday night. I will mention that our sister station, Superstar Country, 961, KWS will be broadcasting live from there. I am going to be doing the duties next week there in Eleanor broadcasting on KWS. So I'm certainly looking forward to it. Now, if you're an employer.

Can you still sign up to be there? Absolutely. We would love for you to sign up. You can do it at pcdia.org slash hometown advantage. It is free, and that's thanks to a partnership between Putnam County Schools and Putnam County Development Authority and those who invest in us, Dave. So this is free not only for employers to come, but also for... any job seekers or anybody in the community that wants to come. Everything is free. We're not going to, some things we experienced last year, we're not going to run off flyers and stuff to the last minute. So if a business wants to come in last minute, let us know. Two o'clock day up, we'll take you. We want to find a place for you. Last year we have people parking at the Piggly Wiggly in town. We're going to have shuttle parking set up. We'll have school buses designated and run people between the GW schools and our parking lots. So we'll have shuttles available. We're going to have food. We usually like to have food. So our Pro Start class is going to be having a nacho bar set up. So there'll be snacks and stuff. One of the reasons we're running from five to eight is there's a lot of practices and stuff going on in Putnam County. And a lot of students weren't able to make it because of the practices. And hopefully by extended it to 8 o'clock will catch a tail into some of those students that will be able to come over with their families and talk to different organizations. All right, guys, I'm looking forward to it. And we'll be talking about it between now and then, but the event is next Thursday night. That's 23rd from 5 until late at the Career and Technical Center in Eleanor, right on the main drag there. You cannot miss it. And it's from 5 until late. And again, our sister station, KWS, I'll be putting on the cowboy hat that night because I'm going to be there broadcasting live in Superstar Country, KWS. Looking forward to seeing both of you there. And we'll talk again soon. Thanks a lot, guys. Great work. Thanks, Dave. Looking forward to seeing you in your cowboy hat. Thank you so much, sir. All right. Thank you, guys. C.D. Caldwell and, again, Morgantin. It is a great event, by the way. And, again, last year was the first year. They did it. And I was there last year as well. And, I mean, there were people everywhere. And he's not exaggerating. And, you know, Eleanor is not that big of a place, okay? They're not exaggerating when they say that they had to run. Well, this year they're doing shuttles. They had people parked everywhere there last year. I mean, a couple thousand people came through the door. And again, it's not that big of a facility anyway. So we want to try to get many people there. But if it keeps up like it is, they may have to look at maybe doing it over a couple of days or maybe doing it, you know, longer time frame or something. But I don't know. It's going to be a great event. And again, we'll be telling you more about it as we get a little bit closer. 921, the Dave Island Show and 580 Live brought to in part by. the all-new Generations Ford of Hurricane. They've got some exciting stuff going on out there. You'll be hearing a whole lot more about it on our station soon. Check out generations forward.com for more information. Bigley, pigly-wiggly, hotline, 304-345-58. Tony Vitale text 304-935508. Back after this on The Voice of Charleston, WCHS.

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Well, what's interesting, Larry's the master on that. Okay, okay. What I do recognize is that from... My knowledge of voting, people need to know what a man stands for instead of just pulling the party lever. And they need to know that somebody stands for their values, not just because they're in office, but they need to be booted out of office by people that have the real same standards, constitutional standards, that most of us have. So when I found out that Larry had been lawfaird, big term in D.C., I don't know if it is out here, but Larry got lawfaird. And explain what lawfaird is for those. Okay, lawfair is when you take the force of government and inappropriately use it against your opponents. Okay. Or somebody that's against your agenda. So Larry is a first and second. and Fourth Amendment agenda, dude, he's a constitutionalist. And when I found out he'd been law-faird, he'd been unjustifiably labeled. And I figured something's, I got to help this guy. And Larry, I let you jump in if you want. How do you feel you were unfairly labeled? What happened? Well, I have been fighting with the West Virginia DNR for the last two years now. My home was raided. Fourth Amendment was violated. Took my phone. I took the deer that I harvested. And this has drug out now for two years, and it was all because of a couple of anonymous calls. So a lot of lies. Now, what was their reason for doing this? I mean, obviously you feel it was unjustified, and I get that. But what was their reasoning behind it? Their reasoning behind it was that the anonymous callers called in that I killed this deer with a rifle in a bow on the county. So it was all lies. There is proof. I have the proof that... You know, the injury they were saying was a rifle wound that killed the animal. The animal was walking around with two days prior with that same injury. I've got pictures of it. So, you know, the 80,000 that I've spent in the last two years fighting this for the people. It wasn't about me. They wanted me to walk away with a $20 guilty plea and be done. But it took them four months of sitting and searching through my phone illegally to come up with anything, and they eventually charged me with hunting without a license. Again, this was a fight that I fought for all West Virginians. It wasn't for me.

I knew I didn't do anything wrong. So I want to stop this type of stuff from happening to other folks. So this is why you decided to run? No, no. There's a lot as far as running. I'm from Wyoming County. We have a major water issue there. People can't get clean water, clean drinking water. The roads are falling apart. There is no jobs. The coal industry is, you know, coal is coal. When it's good, it's good. When it's bad, it's bad. We need to bring more jobs into southern West Virginia. We need to fix the infrastructure. We need to be listening to what people are saying. and I feel I'm the best person for that job. Give me some of your background, some of your body. I mean, other than this story, I mean, just who is Larry Jackson? Talk about you as a person. I grew up, born and raised, Wyoming County. Well, part of Wyoming County, if you don't mind my answer. Hanover. Okay. I know it well. So I was born and raised in Wyoming County like most in Southern West Virginia at... or near the poverty line. So I know what it's like to go to bed hungry. I know what it's like to worry about getting bills paid. I worked hard to come out of that. I now own a business, Eastern Equipment. I run a successful business. And I never forget where I came from or what I came from. I have six children. I've been married for 23 years to my high school sweetheart. Together we have six children. And again, you know, I'm not a politician. I am doing what the people are wanting done, and the people are not happy. That's a sound bite. I love that. And Dick, you have officially endorsed him, right? The Larry is my man. The Larry. Get your own brand now. The Larry. The Larry. What is it, Dick, that you, I mean, again, you live in D.C. whatever. What, what may, I mean, you followed his case, obviously. But what is it that made you? That's one thing. But you obviously saw Southern him that made you want to get behind his campaign. What was that? Well, in Washington, it's a, it's a swamp of mingling. And you just meet people from all over America. come to the Soviet district and we meet up and I heard his story and I said, I can't believe this. Lawfare, the cancer of lawfare of the Washington swamp obviously has spread to West Virginia. Okay, so you decided to run for Congress, and you've officially filed, and so I'm never, I guess you will, whatever. Yes. So you're going to be running, and you'll be, I don't know exactly who else is going to be running, but obviously Carol Miller is in that seat. Now, what would you do differently than what Congresswoman Miller is done?

One of the biggest things that I would do differently than what she is is listen to the people. That's one of the biggest complaints as I'm out meeting people, talking with them. A lot of them doesn't even know who she is, unfortunately, and that's sad. That's probably the biggest thing is listening to the people and taking their concerns back to Washington. And you talked about the infrastructure issues, particularly in this district. And, of course, we have only two districts. Now, basically, you can be defined as the central, southern, and then everything north of that. And so it's a very, very big district. And a lot of the issues... are going to be different from Charleston to Hanover. But a lot of are going to be the same because we hear the infrastructure issue talked about, no matter whether it's a larger city like Charleston or whether it's, you know, Hanover. A lot of the issues are the same. Absolutely. The infrastructure, you know, as you're riding through Southern West Virginia District 1.

the infrastructure it's just you know roads are falling apart now obviously it is different in hanover than it is here in charleston here in charleston the roads are not falling out into the river like they are in hanover um but we definitely have a lot of work to do there and i can't in good faith continue to watch money be sent overseas while we sit here and do without where where's our money going What's your idea for the campaign? Because obviously, and I don't mean this in a derogatory way, but any time that you're going to get up against somebody who is an established political figure like Congresswoman Miller is, and it doesn't matter what side of the aisle you're on, it's always difficult to go after somebody that's an incumbent. What's your plan? My plan is to engage with voters. I have been doing that for the last almost year now. I announced in November of last year. So I've been out meeting with voters, listening to the concerns, educating them, and letting them know that, you know, independence, you need to get registered as Republican if you want to vote for me because I am Republican and next year primary is closed. So I've been engaging with the voters. informing them, letting them know what they need to do. That's my plan going forward as well. And if I don't know that anything like this are planned, but if there were to be a debate or a forum or something like that involving Congresswoman Miller or whomever else may be running, was that something you'd be willing to take part in? I have, and I've actually made a statement on that as well. I will debate the only... Stipulation is everyone that may be in the race has to debate. No one's getting a free pass with me. I stand firm on that. No one is getting just a free pass with me. Okay. Again, we're talking to Larry Jackson who's going to be a candidate for, actually he's a candidate for Congress in District 1. But obviously, you're aligned with Mr. Heller here. He's giving you the endorsement. And we know you told us your story what happened. But why, your story notwithstanding, if it said never happened to you, what is it about the Second Amendment that's so important to you? The Second Amendment is under attack. It has been for a while. The Second Amendment is clear. The right of the people to keep in bare arms shall not be infringed. Somewhere along the way, our government has infringed. extremely bad on the Second Amendment. And the Second Amendment is the only amendment that protects all your other rights. Without the Second, you have no others. Dick's over here doing like my dad used to do in church going, uh-huh. Yeah, amen. You want to add in on that, Dick? Well, what I've noticed the pattern is once they found they could start infringing on the Second Amendment, by golly, the First Amendment started coming close on its heels.

I will say this. I think we got a big First Amendment issue going on right now. A huge. A huge. And that's the one that both sides have championed until they didn't want it anymore. And unfortunately, if the First Amendment comes, you know, it comes with some baggage, I guess, from time to time. Well, our rights come from God. They don't come from government. The rights enshrined in the Constitution, those are. Just that, rights. And the government seemed to have them confused with rights and privileges. Privileges you can give and take. You know, it's kind of like a driver's license. That's a privilege. We can all agree to that. You can have that privilege revoked for some reason, whether that be citations or whatever. Rights, you cannot. A right in a privilege are different. You know, rights, you just can't take and give back or juggle around. And the First Amendment is coming under siege right now. And I'm a constitutionalist. What's your definition of a constitutionalist? For me, if the Constitution says it, it's pretty clear, and that's what we're going to live by. Dick talked about the swamp that is D.C. If you are elected and you go to D.C., how do you make sure you don't become a member of, as you say, the swamp? I'll be there. You got to answer to the dude over here, right? You know, I'm no politician. I have... I believe in term limits. I believe that's one way of fixing that because most of the people that are in there now, they've came from political backgrounds, political dynasties. I am a firm believer in term limits, which is what voting is. You know, that's why we have representatives elected every two years. So that power does lay with the people right now. Unfortunately, the people aren't exercising that power. We see that. A lot of people, and the numbers are staggering at the voters. It just doesn't get out and vote. Why do you think that is? It's been this way so long in Southern West Virginia anyway in District 1. This seat has been held by a career politician since 1977. Now, that was before my time. I was born in 82. How much further back it goes than that? I don't know. I've not researched it. But at least since 1977, this seat's been held by a career politician, and folks wonder, why are we not seeing anything? Why are we not getting any change? So back to your question, I have decided to term limit myself. I have signed a term limit pledge. Again, I'm no politician. I've got my career. I've got my family. I just want to make a change for the people and then get back to that.

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Welcome back to the show, 17 minutes away from 10. Stephanie Pawley is our producer today. Biggly, Pigley Wiggly Hotline, 304, 345-58-58. Tony Taylor text 304-9-35500. Ava. Dave Allen's show on 580 Live, brought to you apart by Pinnacle Consultants. Their services involve developing comprehensive management plans to outline strategies for controlling to minimizing asbestos exposure. Perfect. For commercial property owners and managers, visit pinnaclecorp.net because what you don't know can hurt you. And I got a bunch of text to get to. Text says, who's Carol Miller? Says the texter. And I'll get to the other show in a moment because I've got to take care of a couple things here. You know one of the big sponsors of this show are friends at Bridge Valley. Well, on Friday, you're going to hear from Dr. Casey Sachs in Bridge Valley. But they have a big event going on tomorrow. The annual pumpkin drop. Steve Animal. From her sister station 98-7 to Mountain Wild and Wonderful Classic Rock is going to be serving as the MC of this event tomorrow. We'll get a live update on this show tomorrow from him. Coming up later today on Metro News Midday with 13 News and tonight live anchor Amanda Barron and me, powered by Salango Law. You may have heard about this. This Saturday, there's going to be a couple hundred no kings rallies across America protesting the policies of the Trump administration. It's going to be one in Charleston, too. It's going to start at the Robert C. Bird Federal Courthouse downtown and wide its way to the... Capitol. Pastor Marlon Susan Collins is one of the people taking part, and he'll join us on the show today. Also, it's Wednesday, which means we're going to introduce you to another wonderful West Virginia. Fred Persinger will be here to talk about high school ratings that were released yesterday, football ratings, of course, and the Power Index on Monday, plus Delegate Daniel Linville is on the show. T.J. Meadows will stop by to talk about his commentary. Jeff Jenkins will get you caught up on the news. Rob Cornelius is here, loaded up show today. Metron, who's midday, powered by Salango Law with 13 News, and tonight live anchor Amanda Barron and me coming up at noon today. So, Bigley, pigly, wiggly, hotline, 304, 3445-58. Tony Vitale text 304-935-508. Tech says that guy was the most boomer-sounding millennial I've ever heard. Well, you know, I'll just leave that alone. I'll leave that alone. Text says, for the Second Amendment guy, two questions. I presume he hates extreme risk protection orders like the one West Virginia has. Why should those who pose an acute risk of danger of gun violence have guns? Can you quote any other parts of the U.S. Constitution, it says a texture. Texture says, when all the guns have been banned, when all the words have been censored, when all the history has been erased, when all the freedom has been taken, only... Then will you discover why our right to bear arms was so high on the list? Text says, Dave, props to Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cheryl Jim Himes, for sitting at the Coven's Cauldron yesterday, defending him and HHS employees against the not-so-settled nastiness and snide insults made by Sonny. And by the way, Whoopi had the gall to say he's not a doctor. That's interesting. Guess what people? Al Gore is not an environmental scientist. Bill Gates is not an environmental scientist. John Kerry is not an environmental scientist at all. Leonardo DiCaprio is not a scientist at all, says a texture. Texas, I think the problem is people like Chris Hamilton, the coal industry that's been against renewable energy or anything green that wants to locate here. Look at New Coors Steel.

Green steel plant, spin-off jobs will come here. Bigley, pigly-wiggly, hotline, 304, 345-58-58. Tony Vitale text 304-935508. But A Valand Show and 580 Live brought to in part by Hussons Pizza this month. Get a large 18-nitch pepperoni pizza and an order of 50 cinnamon bites 2099. Check out your closest hussons for delivery, pick up, or dine at hussonspeza.com. Text says, Dave, would any preacher out there tell me the good works, don't get you into heaven or baptism will save you? This is what Charlie Kirk was saying, and it is a lie. Texas, Trump said he had the right to take guns from people like gays or transgender people. He took away your bump stocks during his first term. So as a texture. Okay, I'm not going to get to the name calling, but I'll redress the text. He thinks the guns are more powerful than the corporation that owns a radio station he's babbling on. It says the text.

Okay. When you send me so many, it's kind of hard to read them all. But Texas, hey, Dave. It's been, I've been seeing some new ICE videos of ICE unhinged violence, saw videos of them raiding through a Walgreens looking for brown skin Spanish speakers. That's right. ICE is rating businesses looking for the brown skin Spanish speaking customers to take to their private labor prisons. Look into Geo Group. The private prison company that is donated to our very own Shelley Capito, they're running the detainment centers that are holding the immigrants, says it's extra. Texas, Dave, are we really believe in a report from DHS saying multinational billion-dollar drug cartels are offering tiered incentives for assaulting ICE officers? What do they have to gain? Do cartels care about immigrant low-wage laborers? This smells manufactured, says it, Texter. Texas, so Tom Homan took $50,000 in a paper bag as a bribe, ICE pays $50,000 to join the ranks, and now the cartels are offering $50,000 to kill an officer. Why is it all $50,000? Lord of mercy, the Trump regime needs to get more creative, says it's extra. Biggie, pigly, wiggly, hotline 304-345-58-58. Tony Vitale, text 3049-55508. I do want to throw this out there. Head Kanaugh County Commission President Ben Salango on the show yesterday, talking about the expansion of the Law Enforcement Training Center out near Camp Virgil Tate. We had a caller to the show, and we had some texts to asking if that shooting range had been open to the public at any point. I actually called during the commercial break yesterday to Sheriff Joe Crawford, but he was busy. He was in a meeting. He did call me back later. Had a nice conversation with Sheriff Crawford, who tells me that that facility has never been fully open to the public. As in, and the example that he and I kind of came up with is on a Sunday afternoon, you couldn't gather the family. and say, hey, let's go shooting and go up to the shooting range. That's not the way it worked. There always had to be somebody there, and, you know, they used it for concealed carry classes and things of that nature. But no, according to Sheriff Crawford, it has been in the sheriff's part for a long time. That facility has never been fully open to the public. Tech says, this guy is wasting his time trying to unseat Carol Miller. Miller has suction firmly locked in on the Trump. and Magas don't care about nuance in policy. Texas, where does my right to own a certain type of weapon meet the privilege of being able to own it? Like, I can buy a pistol or a rifle with no problem, but I have to go through hoops and payments to own automatic weapons. Also, is owning an automatic weapon a right or privilege? I can't modify my semi-auto or full auto without ending up in federal prison. The Dave Island Show in 580 live brought you in part by your hometown baseball team, the Charleston Dirty Birds, the Salango Law Light the Night, returning to Go Mart Ballpark November 21st through January 1st. Get your tickets in advance. Please get them in advance by visiting dblightonighton.com. We'll take a break. We'll be back with more after this on The Voice of Charleston, WCHS.

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Welcome back to the show, seven away from Tampa, Dave Allen Show, and 580 Live, brought you apart by Live Healthy. West Virginia, presented by WVU Medicine, a podcast, promoting healthier lifestyles done to be on the state. Check out of the latest episodes, WVMetra News.com under the podcast menu. Bigley, pigly, wiggly, hotline, 304, 3458, Tony Vitale text, says, on your previous guests, those guys sound less informed and intelligent than Carol Miller, and I am impressed and worried. That's a texture. Texas, October 18th is called No Kings Day, no clue why, because America's never had a king, so this is fake news. However, there is no Democrats Day, known as Election Day, and the next couple of them will empty out of office Democrats leaving them as a total outcast, says Texter. Texas, hey, gun dudes, why don't you ever read the well-regulated militia part of the Second Amendment? It's in the Constitution, but we don't follow it. I thought the dude was a constitutionalist, says a text, too, Dave, totally against ICE from using the gun range. They are 100% political and are against the people, don't even want them in the states. It says a... Dexter. Texas, Dave, I sleep better every night because President Trump is in the White House. He's done more to strengthen our country than any other president in my lifetime. And thanks, says the texture. So I'm going to pose a question to you. What do the Washington Post, Fox News, News Max, MSNBC, the Huffington Post, NBC News, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Reuters, Politico, PBS, the New York Times, the military times, CNN. What do all these entities have in common? Because you would see up on the surface that you couldn't get representative from Fox News and MSNBC to share a cup of coffee. But they're all together and they're all united. What are they united about? All of these entities are speaking out against the new Pentagon rules on reporting. The Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is threatening journalists access to the Pentagon if they don't sign rules put forth by him in the administration that would punish them for reporting information that the Pentagon does not want release. Now, granted, we're not talking about classified information here. We're not giving away war secrets. Okay. So I was reading this story last night and I actually posted on my social media without commentary. I just said what all these, you know, have in common. So I will say congratulations to Pete Hegseth because you have somehow managed. We always talk about getting the country back together. You have managed to get Newsmax, CNN, MSNBC, the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, New York Times, Post, PBS, etc., all on the same page. They've all united. Newsmax and CNN and the Wall Street Journal and the Post and the Times and all the PBS. They're all on the same page here.

What kind of a bizarre world do we live in? That they are all on the same page. Tech says Magas are going through collective psychosis, not sure if they need empathy or committed to an institution, probably both. It says the texture. You got to find someone now to replace Mike Stewart in the state Senate. Mr. Stewart, of course, is now a part of the Trump administration. And he vacated his seats in the Senate. Aaron Parker, story posted about this morning, WVMetroNews.com. Now, the deadline to apply is at 5 o'clock this afternoon. And you know the way that this works. There will be a committee that will put forth a list of applicants to go to the governor. And this will be the completion of Mike Stewart's term. Again, Aaron Parker's story with quotes from state Republican Party chair, Josh Holstein, posted this morning at wvmetronews.com. Tech says, this is going back to the show yesterday. Are we becoming dumber? Yes. Tech billionaires, and there's soon to be puppet president, JD Vance, will control vast swathes of the magas through AI taking over thought processes. It's part of the reason AI is so heavily invested. It kills thinking and cultivates obedience, says, I hate texture. Texas freedom and the Constitution that Trump wants to get rid of ain't going to happen, Buttercup. T. J. Meadows. is going to be coming up with Talk Line along with Dave Wilson at 1006. I don't know if you heard this. You were walking as I was saying this. All of those institutions that I mentioned, all these media institutions, Newsmax, CNN, MSNBC, Wall Street Journal, so on, so forth. Fox News are all united together. What do you think about that? What kind of bizarre world is that, that Newsmax and the Wall Street Journal and Fox News and CNN are all on the same page here? It tells you just how bad. This idea is and the one network that does it one America news network I think it is probably struggles to get three people to watch it that's why they've signed it, right? So they think they can get something out of them, we're the only ones there, we'll get the juice. Right, right. This is bad idea. And it's not classified information, TG. I don't know why I coach you TG. I thought I was interviewing. I've been called worse. I thought I was interviewing TG Shepherd here, a late country singer for a moment. Actually, is he dead? I don't know he's dead or not. I don't know either. I'll have to look. All right, so. My condolences if it is. I actually met. T.G. Shepard out. MC to show that he was. My T.G. Shepherd's story was is that he walked out to sign autographs and I was leading him out and he was smoking a cigarette and he handed me his cigarette the whole because he didn't want his fans seeing him smoking a cigarette. So I am standing there, you know, holding a cigarette. Do you know what brandy smoked? No. People are like, when did you start smoking? I don't know about five minutes ago. I would imagine he had me the cigarette. All right. So how bad is this idea that Pete Hegseth's got? Oh, it's horrible.

It's horrible. Daniel Ellsberg needed the New York Times to share the Pentagon Papers with us. We needed to know about Watergate. It's a bad idea. This is taking one of the fundamental checks and balances that's not written in the Constitution aside from the First Amendment, right? Not government-driven, public-driven institutions. that keeps government honest, this is making it harder for them to do their job. That's not good. All right. But again, hats off to Pete Hegseth. He got them all together. He's a uniter. He's a uniter. All right, quickly, what you got on the show? So coming up at 1006, we're going to, oh, my list went. I hate when that happens. It's going to be a good show. Trust me. It's coming up at 1006. I'll be back later today with Metro News Midday. We'll see you then. Until then, have fun. I love somebody. CHS AM, W243 DRFN, Charleston, and W283AQ Cross Lanes, a WVRC media station. We're proud to live here too. Oh, I have had no luck lately. Wait, lady luck? Brett Ski, I got you. I've had so much luck on SpinQuest.com. They have all of my favorite games, slot games, live blackjack craps, and bubble craps. You can even get a $30 coin pack for just $10 bucks. $10 for 30. I'm headed over to SpinQuest.com right now. SpinQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visit spendquest.com for more details. This weekend, someone is walking their dog. Someone is crossing the street to their car. Someone's kid is riding a bike home. And they're counting on you to drive the speed limit. Speeding accounts for nearly 30% of traffic fatalities. And most of those crashes don't happen on the interstate. They happen on the streets where people live. Slow down. It's an act of care for the people around you. So remember, speeding catches up with you. Know the road and respect its limits. Presented by NHTSA. Now back to your news podcast.