Richmond's Morning News with Rich Herrera: Halloween Special

Happy Halloween, everybody, and welcome to the Friday edition of Richmond's Morning News here on News Radio, WRVA, the goose and the goblins, the Spider-Man's, and the Superman's, and the, well, everything in between will come to your house, they'll come knocking on your door. and they'll look at you and demand candy. And this is the one time you'll go, yes, you can have all the candy that you want. Just leave the Snickers in the Reese's pieces for me so I can have extra candy when you get done. Really, that's what Halloween's all about, folks. Halloween really isn't about the kids. It's about the adults that want to have leftover candy for the next week because they don't really buy candy for themselves because they know. Well, maybe we shouldn't really be eating candy all the time. But if it's left over after Halloween, that's okay by me. So... That's why we have Halloween. The real reason we have Halloween is just so I can eat candy for about a week and a half and not feel bad about it. So welcome to my candy day. Thanks so much. You're joining us this morning. We have a lot to get to on the program. I'll tell you this. Today on the show, I've got more people that wanted to come on the program than we actually had time for. I actually had to fight through and turn a bunch of people away today just so we can get to we the people a little bit later. to hear what's on your mind because there is a lot of mind-blowing stuff going on today in the news. Now, most important thing I'm going to ask today is for your text messages, your phone calls, your feedback at 833-804-1140. We will hear from the governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Glenn Youngkin will join us this hour of the program. John Reed joins us in the 7 o'clock hour. I've got so much going on. George Allen and the 8 o'clock hour and then your telephone calls in the 9 o'clock hour. So, hey, let's get started with this Halloween show and kick it off right now with the things people are going to be talking about around Richmond, Virginia today. Senate Democrats to support Republicans' House-passed government funding measure. This is something that every single American, Democrat or Republican, or independents should be able to agree on, open the government. Stop this craziness and open the government. It's causing way too many problems. Democrats want Republicans to negotiate on a measure that includes an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies to prevent millions of Americans' health care premiums from surging. Fighting. For the health care of everyday Americans, for the poor, the sick, and the afflicted, for the least the loss and the left behind, is not a partisan issue. It's a moral issue.

and standing on the side of the health care of everyday Americans is the right place to be. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Kristen Goodwin, Fox News. All right, we're going to talk about that quite a bit today on the program. It is day number 31 of the government shutdown, and the president last night on Truth Social has taken it up one more notch as the American people are getting fed up with this stupid shutdown. It's over something. that we should have been able to figure out a long time ago. Basically, here's the deal, folks. We've explained it to you. The Biden administration ramped up subsidies for Obamacare for the Affordable Care Act through the American Rescue Plan, through the Inflation Reduction Act, which was really just another name for the Green New Deal. They put in extra subsidies over there. They knew they were going to sunset. The reason they knew they were going to sunset is they didn't put them in perpetuity because they would have been scored so high. Nobody would have passed something as crazy as that. They knew it was going to end at 2025. They thought that maybe Kamala Harris would be president or someone else would be president at that time, and they'd just be able to keep pushing those subsidies through. They didn't win the White House. Now we get to the point of they put in these subsidies. They put a end to the subsidies. Now they say, hey, we want to keep these subsidies going as part of Joe Biden's administration. This has nothing to do with the government. This has nothing to do with paying the troops, snap or anything else, but the Democrats are going to die on this hill. People say they're going to give in, they're going to cave in soon. I don't think so. Couple reasons. Why? Number one, in for a penny, in for a pound. You've shut the government down this long and you don't win and you don't keep those subsidies. You walk away with nothing on the Democratic side. Number two. The progressive left wing of the party will not stand for not standing up to Donald Trump. If you give in Chuck Schumer, you might as well resign because Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is going to run against you. Hakeem Jeffries, you walk away right now. You better resign because the progressive wing of the Democratic Party will not admit to a defeat to Donald Trump. This thing is not going to go anywhere anytime soon. We're going to talk about that today on this program. What are you doing now? I was having a tantrum. Oh, well, don't get your clothes all dirty. Speaking about tantrums, the tantrum will continue in the Capitol today as the Democratic lawmakers have pushed together a gerrymandering bill that will try to change the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Virginia. They pushed it through on a partisan level through the House. Today, they'll have the final vote to push it through for the Senate. It was just five years ago. Virginia said we want to have a bipartisan. commission to decide our congressional districts. Now, five years later, the Democrats have decided because of Donald Trump and because of the Republicans, gerrymandering in other states, well, we're going to cherry pick one or two districts to make sure that we keep the balance of power for the party in power in Virginia, namely the Democrats and our congressional delegation up to Washington, D.C. This thing stinks to high heaven of gerrymandering.

partisanship, and really it's a temper tantrum from the Democratic Party. After seeing what went on to Texas, North Carolina, everywhere else, I'm telling you, it wasn't right for Texas to do it mid-sentence, it wasn't right for Carolina to do it, Missouri to do it, California to do it, and it's not right to do it here in the state, in the Commonwealth of Virginia. You know what? You guys, again, keep throwing temper tantrums, and you keep tearing down the fabric of this country, and you wonder why the people are upset. All right, number three, statewide races. Is it boiling down to the Democrats, Republicans? I've said this all along. If you like the way the state's going, then you vote for the GOP because they'll continue Glenn Youngkin's policies. You don't like the way the state's going. Then you vote for Abigail Spanberger. She will take us in a different direction. But it's also come down to this. I went to Jason Miaris's campaign rally yesterday, did some interviews, watched what everybody said. And basically, Jason Miaris said this. The world is watching us in Virginia. Jay Jones text messages mean a lot. Jay Jones, those text messages are absolutely horrible. Everybody agrees with that. But how much are you willing to put yourself in the line in your political future or how much are you willing to be a politician and keep your mouth shut? Abigail Spanberger, two things. Number one, yeah, absolutely. She came out and she condemned Jay Jones for these text messages. Good for you, Abigail. You should have done that. But number two is, when she was asked, do you think he should drop out of the race? Do you withdraw your support for him? She said, well, that's up to the people of Virginia. Virginians need leadership. When it comes to what's going on in the House of Delegate, she was asked the same thing. How do you feel about this? Well, I'm going to leave that up to the House of Delegates. Folks, it's about leadership in Virginia right now. That's what's on the ballot. I'll talk to the governor of Virginia about that coming up at just a moment here on News Radio, WRVA. Hello there. Welcome back. Happy Halloween.

Scary, scary. Spooky, scary. It's Halloween, man. Don't overthink this. It's Halloween, and this year is going to be super spooky. Happy Halloween. Guess what time it is. Go calm. All right, just a quick reminder, Halloween is here tonight. Please be careful driving. I know I don't have a lot of... I have streetlights on our neighborhood. Kids are going to be out trick-or-treating. Parents make sure they wear something reflective. I know Spider-Man doesn't want to wear a yellow vest, but just make sure I can see him while he's walking down the street. Bring a flashlight. Bring your pumpkins or whatever. I'll have plenty of candy, but please be careful. Give them a break. Slow down. Because we don't want anything bad to happen to our little trick-or-treaters, our goblins, or ghouls, our ghosts, our witches, our Spider-Mans, our Iron-Mans, or our hulks. They're going to come get candy from my house tonight. New push in Congress to lock the clocks and stop our spring and fall tradition altogether. Ah, this week it is daylight savings time, or whatever. We go back an hour. So, look, I get an extra hour asleep. How many of you, I'm going to ask you this this morning on the James River Air text line, how many of you would like to just get rid of daylight savings times altogether? So many people do. Now, I lived in Arizona. They don't change the clocks. They have the same time a year long. Would you like to get rid of daylight savings time here in the Commonwealth? Well, I want your text messages this morning, 833, 804, 1140. We'll continue with you. Coming up at the bottom of the hour, the governor. The Commonwealth of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, joins us live here on News Radio, WRVA. All right, we continue it here on News Radio, WRVA. Thanks for joining us, everybody. The governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia will join us here in a matter of moments. We'll talk to him about a whole bunch going on. There was a tele-rally last night. We'll talk about that with the governor. We'll talk about... what's going on with the General Assembly and the gerrymandering that they are trying to push through right now. We'll go to the Senate today. The governor, unfortunately, does not have a say in this, but it'll be pushed through. It'll be legally challenged, and then we'll probably have the next election, and then they'll come back and do it again, try to get it on the ballot to change what Virginians agreed to just five years ago. So we'll talk to him about that, and of course, the election. that's coming up on Tuesday. We're down to the final, final bitter few days of this election. The one thing I'll tell you is you'll stop seeing all these dopey ads on television. Thank goodness. And we'll have some sense of normalcy, although I'm not sure really what that is right now. Somebody sent this text message in. One of you guys going to learn the government is... Whata, whata, what, the people, no matter Republican or Democrat, they take our money and waste it. It's been going on for years. You know, I'm going to disagree with you, Rick and Powhatan, respectfully, because I do like when you text in, so I'm going to tell you this. Here's what the people need to do. If we're putting politicians that are sticking it to us in Capitol Square,

Then whose fault is that? It's not their fault. It's our fault for putting in bums. It's our fault the people for putting in bums. You don't like the government, then stop voting for the same people and sending them back over and over again. You don't like what's going on, then change the government. They're not put there by edict. They're put there by us. So if they're doing that to us, then we're doing it to ourselves. Wake up, pay attention, and vote, and make your voice heard. All right, coming up, we will talk with the governor of the Great Commonwealth of Virginia. He's next. Glenn Youngkin joins us exclusively here. on News Radio, WRVA. All right, thanks for joining us, everybody, on this Halloween night, Halloween day, getting ready for the trick-or-treaters coming out. It was over at Capitol Square the other day. Saw the trick-or-treaters going into the governor's mansion, so let's run out to talk to our governor, the Commonwealth of Virginia. Glenn Youngkin joins us here on News Radio, WRVA. Happy Halloween, Governor. Yeah, good morning, Rich. Hope it all well, but it's also the last Friday of early voting. Everybody's got to get out and vote today. You know what? I was thinking of this scenario. It's the bottom of the night, GOP facing the Democrats. There's two out. We're down by three. Bases loaded. Three-two count. Here comes the pitch. You've been there before you were in the similar situation. Nobody gave you a chance. Donald Trump said, hey, let's have a tele-rally. Do you see any deja vu right now for what's in real serious? Yeah, I was excited that President Trump was able to host a tele rally across the state last night and urge all Republican voters to get out and vote for Winsome, vote for John, and vote for Jason. And I'll tell you, he laid out a very compelling argument, which is, first of all, we've accomplished so much in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Great job growth, great economic growth. Public safety has been completely turned around, and now we're... where we were at a 20-year high murder rate. We are now at a 30% reduction in murders. We put parents back in charge of their kids' education. And finally, more than anything else, we have government that actually works for people. And he reminded everybody, it's all going to go away if we don't win these elections. And so he was urging everyone, get out, vote Republican, up and down the ticket. We need to elect our delegates. We need to elect Jason Meares. We need to elect John Reed. And we need to elect wins some Winsome Earle-Sears. How important is leadership? You sit in that governor's mansion. You understand what it's like to face these tough situations, whether it was the plane crash of the Potomac. Nobody expects to have to deal with something like that when they become governor. To right now, you had to declare an emergency state of emergency so people won't go hungry with the SNAP benefits. It takes leadership. I look at a couple of things with Ms. Abigail Spanberger, and I don't see this leadership. So I want to ask you about this. Jay Jones, she said, well, you know what, it's up to Virginians, I'm not going to weigh in on this. When it comes to the House, to the General Assembly, wanting to gerrymander the state and change the Constitution, she goes, I'm going to leave that up to the General Assembly. Can a government just leave it up to other people, or does a governor need to step up there and show leadership at times and moments where we look to him for some kind of leadership?

This is against everything we believe we're not going to disenfranchise voters all over the Commonwealth of Virginia. And Abigail Spanberger has failed the test again, a test of leadership and, by the way, a test of having a moral compass that distinguishes between right and wrong, and she just can't do it. A lot of people say the text message is a distraction. This is a distraction. I'm going to go back to what I originally said on the radio, and I want to get your comments on this. I've said all along this race is going to boil down to, do we follow the policies of Glenn Youngkin, or do we think the state's going in the wrong direction, and we change direction and go with Abigail Spanberger? Am I still clear on that? Is that really what we have at stake? Do we continue the Yon policies, or do we go in a different direction? You have it 100%. Listen, Winsome has got a lot of top priorities that I think will take the great work that we have done and take it even further. And start with education. At the end of the day, Virginia schools are so much better today than when we started. We made the test harder, and the kids' scores went up. We got cell phones out of the classrooms, and we're all of a sudden seeing academic performance, improved, mental health challenges, decline, and disruptions in the classrooms decline. And we've had record education budgets for the last four years. Teachers are now being paid 18% more than when we started. And the reality is that when there's a poll, there was a recent survey done, and Virginia was rated the best state in America to be a teacher. And Winston's going to continue to drive this. Of course, what Abigail Spanberger has as a spouse over and over again is she wants to undo our expectations of excellence. The idea that we're going to hold schools accountable for getting your children educated, she and her running mates have said they want to undo, let's just start with education, which is the future of our country. But economic development is also critically important, and Abigail Spanberger is going to get rid of right to work. What does that mean? Everyone's going to be forced to join a union. Can you imagine that? You want a job in Virginia? You've got to join a union. You want to move here from another state? You've got to join a union. It's just... And it's an abomination on economic development, and she's going to undo all of it. We have had record investment, record, $143 billion committed to the Commonwealth to expand and grow businesses, and more than the last five administrations combined. We've had record job growth. She's going to undo all of that. And finally, when it comes to public safety, you see law enforcement lining up across the board. denouncing Jay Jones and saying if abigail spamburger can't denounce Jay Jones as our attorney general how can we work for her She also has stood against qualified immunity, and we all understand that means that holding law enforcement with civil liability if they lose in a court case, and no law enforcement hero is going to do the job if you take away qualified immunity. Bottom line is everything that we've stood for, and that tremendous successes that we have had, ultimately resulting in $10 billion of surpluses in the Commonwealth of Virginia, $9 billion of tax relief.

It's all going to stop with Abigail Spanberger, and when Sears is going to continue to hit the accelerator. We have 60 seconds, sir. You're going to leave the governor's mansion sooner rather than later. You're going to go back to being a regular citizen, a member of the citizenry of the Commonwealth of Virginia. If the Democrats have the House, the Senate, and the governor's mansion, what's life going to be like for you as an ordinary Virginia? But what I worry most about is what's going to happen across the board to Virginia who is leading right now. This great Commonwealth is leading. And when we saw the last time that they had the trifective, Virginia all of a sudden went from first to last. It lasted everything. I mean, a 20 year high in murder rate, bottom third in job growth. We were 46 in the nation and getting our schools back open. And our kids suffered the largest learning loss in the nation, the largest in the nation. And we just saw recently that Virginia now has led the map learning loss recovery. This is the Virginia that they built when they had a chance. It was awful. We've turned it around in a most remarkable way in the last four years. And this is what's on the ballot. Do we want to keep going or do we want to go back? And that's why I'm urging all Virginians get out and vote for winsome seers, John Reed, Jason Mierrez, and the Republican delegate. You've watched this sham, sham special session this week, and you've watched them silence. silence. Anyone who stood up and tried to even mention political violence. And in fact, every senator, every Democrat senator voted against a resolution to condemn political violence. How in the world could they possibly do that? Don Scott actually almost had one of our delegates thrown out of the house because she wanted to represent women who were concerned about political violence. That's what they represent. And that's why this election is so important. Get out and vote. Sir, thank you very much for joining us. I'll catch up with you soon. All right. God bless you. God bless the Commonwealth, and let's go, Virginia. Thank you so much. The governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, here on News Radio, WRVA.

you stop this music. Germ, who's guest starring from the Jeff Kat Show, you know I'm afraidy cat. You know that I don't like Halloween. You know I don't like anything spooky or scary. You know I sleep with the nightlight and you're playing spooky music. There are no windows and no doors. There's always my way. I do get a little scared at the Haunted now when I go through at Disney World. I do. I do, I do. Anyway, happy Halloween. Now, I don't like the scary Halloween. I said there's a guy around the corner from me who he must have 50 pieces of whatever from Home Depot and Lowe's in his front yard. He's got like a big T-Rex skeleton out there and a big... He's got dog skeleton. He's got all these skeletons out there, and he's got this huge haunted house, which the neighbor said will make you lose control of your bladder if you walk through that haunted house. It's so scary. I'm not going. I don't want to be scared. I prefer to have the fun happy Halloween or the Charlie Brown Halloween. That's what I prefer. Or I can't say this on the radio either, can I? No, I can't say this. I was going to say when I was in college, some of the outfits that people would wear when I went out to the taverns and stuff were very interesting. How about if I just leave it at that because it's a family show? All right. Coming up on the program, we'll hear from John Reed. He's going to join us coming up. Next, we have just a few days to go until the election. John Reed has been out there with not much support with absolutely no money, and he's probably gone through, oh, I don't know, probably 10 sets of tires, and I don't know how many times he's had his oil changed along the way because he's just driving everywhere. This is retail politics as best. We'll get John's thoughts on where we are with this race coming up here in just a matter of moments here on News Radio, WRVA.

All right, it's 704 here on Richmond's morning news. Good morning, everybody. My name is Rich Herrera. We are just days away from Election Day here in the Commonwealth of Virginia. There is a man that has spent nearly... A quarter of his life in the car, driving from one side of the state to the other, it seems like. He's probably gone through five or six sets of tires. I know he's probably on a first name basis with the people of Jiffey Louvre, as much mileage as he's put on that car, driving from one side of the state to the other, all the oil changes he's had in between. I know that they know him when he walks in to the McDonald's up in Fredericksburg, but the people really want to know more about our next guest. There's rumors out there that he hates puppies, rainbows, and he's going to give away candy corn tonight for Halloween, although I don't think he's going to be home because he's probably going to be out of rally somewhere. John Reed joining us here, the former host of this radio show on News Radio, WRVA. John, is it true that you hate puppies? Absolutely not, and I want to dispel that ugly rumor. You're causing me trouble. You could probably say like Azalah Hashmi does that I want to destroy public education, and people would be less upset about it than what you do. said, Rich, don't do that to me. All right, let's talk about these commercials. She's actually running commercials right now. Money was lent to her, the money that had been going into Abigail Spanberger's campaign, came into her campaign, which tells me her internal polls aren't as strong as the public polls and what people would think you've made this race into a dead heat just because you and Alonzo have driven everywhere, and you've met everybody in the state, it seems like, twice. But the ads that are coming out attacking you that you hate the schools, you want to burn them all down, you want to shut them all down, you want everybody to go without an education, please respond. Yeah, well, the good thing is on this program, at least everybody heard me for the last eight years talking about how we need political leaders who will actually acknowledge when there's a problem and try to fix it. Instead of exacerbate the problem, use it to raise money and extend the problem so they can win the next election. I have no interest in doing that kind of garbage anymore. I think we need to say there's some great public schools. I went to some of them out in RICO County. There's some great schools in Chesterfield. My dad was a principal at Rovius Middle School for many, many years. My mother was a public school teacher in Charlottesville, but can we be honest?

We know that there's some schools that aren't as great. And I'm not beaten up on the teachers because I think most teachers get up every morning and trying to work hard. But there's some places that it's not working in the city of Richmond. There are a couple schools in Chesterfield that the data indicates the kids aren't learning. So why don't we address that? Why don't we stop shoveling money towards schools and systems that aren't producing kids that can read and write when they're 17 years old? and maybe come up with some school choice options. That's what I'm talking about. I mean, how many generations of young Virginia kids, in some cases, black kids in the city, who we all claim to care about, right? How many generations are we going to let them go through and not be able to read a right? Because Allah Hashmi is just doubling and tripling down on a failed system. I'm looking at ways to perfect it, to reform it, and to fix it on behalf of the families. I hope people will look for someone like me. He's got a fresh set of eyes to fix stuff. So wait a second. Let's make sure we have this straight. You are the product of some public education, public schooling. Your dad worked in public schooling. Your mom worked in education, so you are not anti-education. I'm the product of public schooling. My son's the product of private schooling. And I see the difference, and especially with some of these kids in the inner cities, I went to a school. My high school, John, was one of the first to be taken over by the Crips. when they left Los Angeles and we had gang bangers in my high school back in the 80s. I looked to see where my son was going to go to school. I said, nope, I'm going to get a second job so he can go to a private school to have a better shot than I have. It just seems like if you really care about kids, give them an opportunity to change their future. Don't just condemn them to the same education time after time after time where it becomes a factory that kids don't get an opportunity to make better in their lives. Yet this is the problem. You've got someone like me who is not beholden to anybody, and you go look at the people who've given money to my campaign and the people who have not given money to my campaign. The good thing, Rich, is if I get to the Capitol, I don't know anybody anything. It's one of the good things about being poor is you don't have to suck up to people. Gazala Hashmi is the exact opposite. She's going to have to bow down to everybody, and she doesn't have a problem with doing that to the unions. These teachers' unions, these labor unions, you know, I'm not against unions necessarily, but I am against all this money that gets funneled into buying politicians and buying votes, and then the end result for the average person stinks. And we all know that that's true, and it's time for us to take back the government with reasonable and responsible leadership. And, you know, Rich, that's why I left the radio station, was I just couldn't, you know, I couldn't stand being a commentator in my home state anymore and watching dumb and reckless. And I think in some places corrupt people making really bad decisions. That's why I left my comfy little life of sports because I thought I needed to step up.

and do more. You did the same. You took a bigger step than I did, and I've always admired that. Let's put all this politics aside for just a moment. This is the audience that I inherited from you. I'm sitting in this anchor chair that you sat in, that Aldenairo sat in, that Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett sat in, and all the great hosts here as we get ready to celebrate 100 years of WRVA. I know it's coming up on Sunday. What are you all going to do? Do you have a plan? Oh, yeah. On Sunday, we kick off our year-long celebration. It's going to be pretty spectacular. Instead of just having one day of a birthday party, we're going to extend it out for a year. And we'll be taking the show on the road, and it'll be special. But I do want to ask you this, in all intimacy of radio, which this is the most intimate form of content. What have you learned about the American people? Because you didn't have donors come. Let's be honest, John. The donors didn't come throwing barrels and barrels of money at you. The GOP didn't say, oh, John, let's throw a parade for you. You did this. You've done this. You've made this basically a dead heat where the other side had the Democratic Party got behind. Senator Hashmi, the money came in for Senator Hashmi. She's gotten all the advantages of being in politics. You're an outsider. What have you learned being one man on his own driving around this state with absolutely no help but no financial resources? And like I said, the people at McDonald's and Fredericksburg know you by name by now. People have been great. rural areas in Virginia where they're not interested in playing politics or really letting politics dominate their life, where, quite frankly, go to church is the most important thing in their life and their kids and their families, which I believe is the right set of priorities instead of this kind of vicious political mindset that's overtaken other parts of the country and been some parts of the state. I've been really thankful that there have been so many people who've been willing to give me a chance, willing to listen to me. I've had people who walked into a room thinking, I can't vote for him for a variety of reasons. They didn't know me. They found out about the gay thing, and they thought, oh, my God, I can't vote for a gay guy. You know, what am I going to do here? But you know what? They took an evening, and they came to hear me speak. They asked me kind of blunt, direct questions, which were a little uncomfortable, to be honest with you. But in the end, I think I've won people over, and it's been good that I've been willing and able to put in this work to meet those folks. And I'm just hopeful that on November 4th, you're going to find that most Republicans have reached the conclusion that I'm the type of guy you want at the Capitol, not a career politician, not somebody who's in the money-grubbing, kind of disgusting side of politics. You know, Alonzo and I still live in a townhouse over in a short pump. And unfortunately, I can't see that change anytime soon, especially with the debt that I've racked up doing this campaign. And I'm trying to just stay grounded, stay focused on how I can help people and how I can stop bad things from happening. That's one of the things my dad said right before he died, Rich.

Because he was in hospice, and I brought the list of the bills that he worked on in the General Assembly, and I thought this would be a good thing to talk about, maybe get him engaged. And it was a pretty small list. And I said, you know, you were there 18 years. What, this isn't a big list at, and his eyes opened up, and he sat up in the bed. Listen, maybe two weeks before he died. And he said, Johnny, I went to the Capitol. And I figured out my main role there was to stop bad things from happening, not to try to fix everybody else's problems. And that has stuck with me. There are a lot of bad things that are on the verge of happening that can really hurt people. And I want to go to the Capitol and try to stop the bad things from happening. And where I can be someone who helps create solutions, I will do that. But that put things in perspective for me. All right, let me ask you this. You have a lot of time that you spend in the car either with Alonzo or by yourself. And when you're driving that far and you're going out to Lynchburg, you're going up to Northern Virginia, you have a lot of time to think and be inside your own head. Have you imagined what it's going to be like on election night when you win or if you lose? Oh, sure. You know, I've been around this stuff my whole life, and I've had some elections that have been just thrilling. You know, when Donald Trump won, I was on the BBC World Service with supposedly a billion people listening around the world, and they went around the table, the panel that they had assembled. And I was the only person who said, you know, if you look at the polls, Hillary Clinton is going to be the next president. But I'm just telling you, I think that they have undersampled Republicans, and they've called everybody names, racist, and bigots. And I think that's possible Donald Trump wins. And then guess who was right, me? And, you know, they never invited me back on the show, even after I was right. So there are nights like that where, you know, something remarkable happens. And then there have been other nights where you're just devastated because you put in all this work. I think that the, you know, as objective as I can be about it, I think that the trend is in my favor. I do think Virginians see someone like me who has been up since 4 o'clock this morning, who I'm on the road to Stanton right now. I think people like men and women who will put in hard work and who will show dedication, and they compare that with Gazala Hashmi, who's really done nothing and has refused even one debate, which is... a slap in the face, not just to me as her opponent, but to the people of Virginia that she doesn't think she has to answer to anybody. And I think in the end, they're going to vote for me. So I'm feeling pretty good about this. I'm not letting up off the gas. I've got a lot of miles to cover between now and Tuesday night at 7 o'clock, but I'm willing to do that work as a candidate, and I hope that indicates that I'll do good work for you if you... All right, John, I'm going to let you go. I've got a bunch of angry teachers over here that are upset that you're threatening to cancel recess. And, oh, I just got another, I just got a missive here right now. Some political action committee is saying John Reed is going to outlaw tetherball in schools if you elect him. I've got to look into all these stories. I promise that won't happen. By the way, what was your favorite recess? What was your favorite part of recess when the kids went out to play? Because let's just prove that John Reed actually went to school.

That's the other thing as I'm starting to hear your opponent saying, John Reed never actually went to school and never participated in recess, didn't go to elementary school, just to prove them all wrong. What was your favorite part of recess? Well, it's not there anymore. If you go to Carver Elementary School on Lauderdale Drive, that was my elementary school, and it was one of those super dangerous carousel things that you'd get it going 100 miles an hour, and the kids would flip off onto the concrete and crack their head back when we weren't so soft. And I love getting that carousel thing going 100 miles an hour because you'd run along and then jump on. And then inevitably, somebody would get hurt. But they had to remove that, I guess, for an assurance reason. So my favorite part of recess doesn't exist anymore. It's like me walking through the snow to get to school way back when, right? Oh, wait a minute, John. MSNBC has a reporter at the school looking to see if there's ever a sign that there was a carousel. They'll have a report tonight with Jen Socky talking about you. It is crazy when you start living. I grew up here. I've lived three miles from the house that I grew up in, and I'm so glad to be a part of Central Virginia, and I'm glad to have been a part, as you point out, the history of WRBA. It's funny, Rich. I'm excited because I think I get back Sunday night in time to go to the old tobacco warehouse. At 9 o'clock, I thought I might go just take a selfie in front of the tobacco warehouse in downtown Richmond where the first broadcast took place at 9 p.m. on... on November 2nd, because that's WRVA Day. And, you know, when I was hosted the show, we always made a big deal out of WRVA Day. So in my own little way, I'm going to be toasting you and Jeff and the whole team. I'm so excited to hit that milestone century mark for this great radio station. And I'm thankful to be able to come on with you while I'm pursuing this effort for Lieutenant Governor. All right. Let's try to catch up on Tuesday on Election Day. We'll get one final word in with you. That's awesome. Thank you, Rich. All right. We'll talk to you soon. John Reed, joining us here on News Radio, WRVA. You hear on News Radio, WRVA, there I am. Good morning, everybody. Our thanks to John Reed for stopping by the program. We've talked with Governor Glenn Youngkin. Governor George Allen will join us here just a little bit. See, I'm flexing a little bit because I'm trying to impress Tanya J. Powers because I asked her to come on this morning to talk about daylight savings time and whether we should keep it or get rid of it or why we have it in the first place. Let's do that right now because, again, don't forget tonight's Halloween and we've got to set the clocks. back, right? It's the fault. We sent them back. Let's talk about all of this with Tanya J. Powers of Fox News, our guest here on News Radio, WRVA. I set them back, correct? Yeah, on Sunday. On Sunday. If you set them back tonight, you're just going to be a little bit late for things tomorrow. But, you know, you can just tell everybody you're on trend before everybody else is. That's right. It's okay. So why do we have daylight savings time? Tell me that.

Well, daylight saving time was a thing that started around World War I. The idea was to save coal and boost productivity, apparently. And Congress passed it, got rid of it, and then brought it back during World War II. So we've been doing this a long time. And about twice a year, at least, people are like, why do we do this again? Why are we going through this? Why is it dark at 4 o'clock for the whole winter? Like, what is happening? And it's one of those things where, you know. twice a year, we have to go figure out how to set the clock on the microwave again because you have to fall back in November, adding more daylight in the morning. Of course, you spring forward around March and you get more daylight in the summer evenings, which a lot of people do miss. A lot of people are, you know, when this happens in November, kind of like, oh, I know that's kind of what I've been doing. I've been sort of mentally kind of trying to. come to grips with the fact that it's going to be dark a lot sooner. We're not going to have like the, you know, the nice evening hours where there's sunlight and there's, you know, the sunset is at like, you know, six o'clock or seven or whatever. And, you know, now it's just, it's just going to be dark when we get off work. It's just depressing, isn't it? Yeah, it kind of is. I mean, for a lot of people, it is, it is not a, that is not something to play around with. It does. contribute in the winter to, you know, seasonal depression and things like that. So, as a matter of fact, I have a segment on this evening's Fox News Rundown Evening Edition podcast where we're going to be talking about daylight saving time and the effect that has on your health, you know, either sleep interruptions or, you know, maybe people aren't getting out to do as much an activity in the evenings because it's dark, you know, fewer people are. going to go for a run or go for a long walk or something like that because, you know, it's dark earlier. That also has an effect on your health. And we're going to be talking to a cardiologist about that. It'll drop this evening around 6 o'clock. So. Is there any appetite? I know Peter Ducey had asked Donald Trump in his first few days in office, are we going to get rid of daylight savings times? Because it's something that he had spoken about on the campaign trail. But I know that Congress had talked about that. Is there any appetite just to just, let's just set it at once time of year and just keep it across the country? Yeah. I mean, there has been. There has been talk by him on the campaign trail at least before we've heard a lot about that. He has previously supported the idea of eliminating daylight saving time in a truth social post in December of last year. He said the Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate daylight saving time. He said daylight saving time is inconvenient and very costly to our nation. Earlier this year, he said it was a toss-up and it was hard to get support for.

um so you know it's it's kind of you know in uh 2019 he said the same thing he said in april that the house and senate should push for more daylight at the end of the day so it's he's you know kind of been He said some things about it in the past, but as far as, like, you know, will this actually get done? That's a different thing. I guess he's kind of busy, you know, going to Asia, you know, trying to deal with what's going on in the Middle East, Ukraine. There's that thing I've heard about it. I'm not really sure if it's true or not that shutdown thing in D.C. I've heard something about it. So, I mean, I guess he can get to when he gets to it, right? You know, you're right. There is a lot going on in the U.S. as well as globally. We do have a government shutdown. And, you know, there's a lot of talk. Matter of fact, a couple of my stories this morning are on the SNAP benefits stopping as of tomorrow if a judge doesn't rule. you know, to force the administration to give the money out. So, yeah, there's a few things happening. See, in Virginia, we don't have to worry about that because our governor found a surplus and our benefits will continue as of Saturday for the time being, thanks to Governor Glenn Youngkin. But I did, speaking of states, I did come from a state in Arizona where we never changed time. But that was weird because half the time we are Pacific, half the time we were mounted, so it would mess up your TV habits of what time the NFL started during the football. season. You know, it's interesting that you bring that up because that's one of the things I have kind of pointed out when I've been talking to stations this morning, as there are states and the territories don't observe it either. I think all of this territories maybe. But Hawaii and Arizona, with the exception of the Navajo Nation, also don't observe daylight saving time. So I think that's interesting. I've never actually talked to anybody that lived in a place that didn't do it. So I love hearing that. Oh, it's absolutely amazing because you don't have to figure out how to change the time in your car. You don't have to have the blinking light in your microwave. You don't have to do anything else. But when I first moved there, so I lived in Arizona twice. And both times, like, the first two years being there, I'm like, oh, daylight savings time. And I actually went and changed all the clocks in the house before I remembered. Oh, wait a minute. We don't change time. And I had to swap them all back. But it makes your life so much easier other than... Football starts earlier. Football starts later. And it's just you have to live your life by, I'm either lining up with Los Angeles or Denver to see what time it is around the rest of the country. But the interesting thing, Tanya, is if you have family members in a different state, you have to remember that when you call them. So when I call my brother in California, I'm either calling him right at five or he's saying, hey, stop calling me. I'm still at work. It's only 4 o'clock. Yes.

Yes, yeah, absolutely. You would have to kind of remember that. But, yeah, I think it would be interesting to live in a place that didn't have to, you didn't have to set your clocks back and forth. Oh, because nobody likes doing that. That's stressful. I don't remember, oh, where's that little piece of paper? Now I've got to look on chat GPT to figure out how to change the clocks. Or the worst thing is, some clocks change automatically. If they're smart clocks or smartphones, others don't. And you have to remember which is smart, which is dumb, otherwise you're going to be late. Yes, yeah, you do have to keep an eye on that. I like the fact that my, you know, my devices change. It's just that pesky microwave that I have to go in and reset. You know what? Thank goodness that it's 2025 and we don't have VCRs anymore. I know. I know. I was the only one in my house that could program hours, so I do feel a little bit smart. But, you know, you're right about that. All right. Hey, I know you're busy, but I know you have lots of reports on that, but you were filing about daylight savings times. Like, oh, good, we get to bring Tanya on, by the way. I forgot to tell you, happy Halloween. Oh, happy Halloween. I hope you have a wonderful time. Any ideas for the costume tonight? Are you dressing up? Well, we dressed up the other day. I dressed up as a baseball empire because I actually had the clothes in the closet, so I'd have to go buy anything. But I did go make up little special gift bags for the five kids that live next door to us. And then one of my coworkers lives around the corner in the new house that we moved into. So she's a neighbor. So I got her kids special bags as well. And then I'm just handing out as much chocolate as I can. You're going to be a favorite in the neighborhood for sure. Hopefully they won't be egging my car. That's what I'm really, really hoping for. Tanya J. Power, Fox News. Thank you for stopping by. Appreciate it. I appreciate you more than you'll ever know when you come on the program. I'll catch up with you soon. Sure. Thank you. All right. Take care. Tony J. Power joining us here. Would you like to get rid of daylight savings time? Is this the Illuminati controlling us through daylight savings time so we can't? Are these the, is this AI overlords controlling you through daylight savings time? I'll throw this out. Listen, there's so much going on in the world today. We got elections. We got gerrymandering. We got a government shutdown down. Just take a little bit of breather. Relax for a minute. Just tell me, do you like daylight savings time? Yes or no. Would you like to be like Arizona where they never have to change their clocks? They just live the same life all the time. And by the way, there's some states in Florida, for instance, the state is in two different time zones. The panhandle of Florida is in one time zone. Miami's in another. So if you're going, if you're in Florida and you drive from Miami, St. Pete, Orlando, Gainesville. By the time you get up to Tallahassee and you come around the Big Bend like you're heading west, half of the state is in a different time zone. So when they have elections in Florida, they can't call the state until the central time zone. So you can't even get your election results back because of all of that.

What do you think? 833, 804, 1140, 833, 804, 1140. By the way, speaking of the election, we will have special election night coverage. I believe Jeff Katz, myself, Charles Pyle, we will all be on the air with you as the election results come in throughout the evening. So you want to make sure if you're not in front of your television, you're running around, you're working or you want to hear what we have to say. We'll do that for you on election night. We'll continue. It's news radio, WRVA. Germ, I've told you this all morning, stop playing the spooky music. You're freaking me out. Like, the spookiest I want is... No, Adam's family is a little too scary for me. I mean, I'm just about maybe the haunted mansion. By the way, the second one was better than the first. The first one, Eddie Murphy, not good. Owen Wilson, not bad for the Adams family. Anyway, hi, everybody. It's Rich Ferrer. Thanks for joining us here on News Radio, WRVA. Controversy right now on our text line. A couple people have some rather stinging comments. Number one, hey, Rich, and this goes back to our conversation with John Reed, tell John Reed it's not a carousel. It's called a merry-go-round. That's a hot take right there. MSNBC is doing a full investigative report about that, but not CBS because they have a new news boss. They're actually going to start trying to go a little bit more conservative instead of so far to the left. The other one is, Rich, what is it? Is it daylight savings time or daylight saving time? I actually looked this up for you. The technical term is daylight saving time, but everybody says daylight savings time. But if you want to be grammatically correct, it's daylight saving time, but everybody will look at you like you're a weirdo because we all say savings time. Just thought I'd pass that along to you this morning. Coming up, we'll give you the five things people are talking about. And then Donald Trump says it's time for the nuke, the nuclear option. In the Senate, I disagree. The filibuster is there for a reason. We'll talk about that with George Allen coming up in the next hour, Richmond's Morning News, on News Radio, WRVA. It is 803 here on News Radio, WRVA. My name is Rich Scherer. Thanks so much. You're joining us. We appreciate you spending time with this on this Halloween, although germ. But crack your microphone for me, if you don't mind. Germ from the Jeff Katz show is producing the program today. And I'm going to make him talk. I did get him to crack the microphone the other day. And everybody goes, wow, he's not how I thought he would sound. I thought he would sound like AI. I thought he'd sound like Siri. But instead he, oh wait a minute, don't say that. I want my phone to start talking to me, but we actually made Jeremy talk the other day. And he doesn't sound like a robot or AI, right? You're a real person. You're not artificial intelligence. Is that correct? On a good day. What? On a good day. Yeah, see, he does. I see, I think Katz is lying to us. I think Germ is really the original AI. I think that's really who you are.

I'll take it. I'll make data blush on Star Trek. Okay, let me ask you this. Why are you trying to scare me this morning? You know I'm afraid he can't, right? We've had this conversation. I've told you, I've told everybody two of my deepest, darkest secrets. I sleep with the nightlight. Because I'm a Frady Cat, and I don't know my left from my right. You've heard me say that before, right? Like, I literally never learned my left from my right when I was a kid. And the only way I know left from right is I've got this little, this little, I they call it a Riderswart. this little piece of rough skin on the middle finger of my right hand. So when I need to know my left or right, it just doesn't automatically just pop into my head. I've got to actually touch my middle finger to see right from left. Well, you're getting there. It's like when I was a friend of mine had a boat and he would take me out. I thought it was out there. Oh, look, we'll go out for a boat trip. He'd know he said that I was rail meat. So what about when you hear like the national anthem or anything like that? I know it automatically put my right hand over my heart. Oh, you don't have to check your callus for that? No, but if you just tell me which way are we going left or right, I'd have to touch the callus on my hand to figure out which left right. When I played high school football? and I knew that we were going to run to the right, and I had to go get and block this guy to my right. When we walked up to the line of scrimmage and I couldn't remember which side I was going, I knew the zero holes, 1-0, whatever, the different holes. They go, you know, 236, half-back slam on two. And I knew, okay, we're running to the right of me, so I have to go and block my guy and keep him from getting to the right of me. So I've got to put my head on... his left hip to seal off that block to the right. When I'd run up to the line of scrimmage, I'd be feeling that callous on my finger to see which way I was supposed to block. If I knew I was playing on the other side of the ball and we were blitzing to the left and I had to move to the right, I'd stand there and... Coach is yelling at you. Herrera, you're going the wrong way. Exactly. So those are my two big, deep, dark secrets. And now you're exposing one of them because you keep playing the spooky music for Halloween. Hey, listen, you exposed yourself when it came to a nightlight. That was all you. I didn't say, yeah. I don't want you telling anybody I'm exposing myself on the program this morning. I'm talking about nightlights. I'll just say, did you see what the John Reed commercials are like? John Reed wants to close every school at town. It's because he sent stuff into this microphone. Now, if I ever read Frobs ago, Rich Rhaer exposes himself to people. With a night light. With a night light. So thanks a lot. Now you're scaring me. Although I can I say before we get to the top five, we'll do it real quick. I do want to say thank you. I went out to Jason Miaris's get out the vote rally to watch and see. And I actually sat down with Kerry Coiner. We're going to have that for you on Tuesday on Election Day. I think we'll play that back. But I saw.

I didn't talk to the Attorney General. He was busy, but I saw Mark Early, Jr., who is a frequent contributor to this program. But I also met a lot of great listeners out there. In fact, my buddies out there that I met yesterday, I'm going to come see you out there in Chesterfield. But I did have a very nice lady walk up to me. And she said, are you Rich Herrera? And I said, yes, I am. She goes, oh, I just wanted to say hi. And I kind of looked at her because I was just standing there by myself not doing anything. I said, how did you know it was me? She was, by your shoes. I said, by my shoes. She goes, well, you always talk about how many shoes you have. And I looked down and you had really nice shoes on. So I figured it had to be you. Are you a sneakerhead? No, I've got like, in my house right now, just in my shoe racks, I got like 50 pairs of shoes. Well, I mean, that's sneakerhead territory. No, no, no, but I've got, they're not all like Nike Jordans. They're different kinds of shoes, so I have a lot of shoes. My wife says, oh, look, you're a Mel de Marcos. There you go. Because I got that many shoes. I got shoes and baseball caps, my two vices. So she goes, oh, you have really nice shoes. So I figured it was you. And then somebody else walked up. And I was wearing my Stets and Cowboy hat that I have. The one that LBJ and I used to wear. It's the one with the short brim. And I have this really nice Philson jacket that I got at Green Top. So, you know, looking pretty sharp at the event. Somebody walked up and said, oh, Rich. And I said, oh, hi. And he goes. I can tell you're the only one wearing a cowboy hat, and then you look like you came from out west. I go, is that good or bad? He goes, no, you look good at it. So people were saying hi because my fits were dripping Riz. You are so cool. That's what they tell me. I mean, set the standard and raise the bar. Exactly. Put the fries of the bag. Let's get to the top five.

Everybody knows what that means, right? Put the fries in the bag. It's what the kids are saying when they're done. Like, let's move on. Put the fries in the bag. Like when you're at McDonald's. All right, you know what? Stop talking to you. Put the fries in the bag. I'm going to go. You'll learn something this morning of Richmond's morning news. Government shutdown hits day number 31. Day number 31. We're going to talk to George Allen coming up in about 20 minutes about. Donald Trump's idea to end the filibuster. I think the filibuster is something that when you start messing around with the institutions we have in government, it's great if you do it today. What's going to happen tomorrow when somebody else wants to jam something down your throat? You don't have that filibuster to protect you. We'll talk about that with Governor Allen coming up at just a bit. All right, gerrymandering on steroids. That's what we're getting here in the Commonwealth of Virginia. After California has Prop 50, the Democratic leadership in the General Assembly calls back a special session to vote on an amendment to the Constitution. This amendment will be voted on and it's already ramrodded through the House and through the committees. Today it goes to the Senate. It'll probably go along party line votes. But what they have is the first passing of a bill or resolution, whatever they're calling it. Then we're going to have the election next week, and then they're going to do it again. Then a referendum will go on the ballot to allow the majority party to redraw certain districts at their discretion in retaliation for what other states are doing around the union. Hi, I like you to meet Jerry. This is Mandor. It's Jerry Mandering. All right, statewide races heating up. We talked to John Reed a little bit earlier on the program. We talked to Glenn Youngkin as well. Oh, by the way, we do have confirmation that John Reed does not hate puppies. That was some of the anti-John Reed adjuice. You were spot to hear that John Reed does not hate puppies. But we didn't ask whether he was a cat or a dog person. We'll do that next time he comes on the program. But we're getting closer and closer and closer. to the election next Tuesday. Abigail Spanberger, according to most polls, continues to lead versus Winston-Ral Sears. John Reed is in a virtual dead heat with Gazal Hasme and Jason Mioris is pulling away from Jay Jones. We'll have a split ticket it looks like here in Virginia. Will you get two Republicans or two Democrats? That's still to be seen. Today's Halloween, so please just... Do me a favor and all the parents out there just chill out a little bit when you're driving. Today be a little bit more careful with all the little kids in their costumes. A lot of times those kids have those masks. They can't see what's going on. They might run out. They're going to be hopped up on candy. If I have anything to do with it, oh, the parents of my neighborhood are going to hate the fact that I'm giving away Red Bull, five-hour energy and pixie sticks to every kid that comes by to bounce off the walls and they get back to their house. No, I'm just kidding. I'm not. Am I? Am I kidding? I don't know. Anyway, be careful that it's Halloween, so just kind of chill out a little bit and give them a break while they're driving around, while you're driving around while they're trick or treating this evening. And that's what... Oh, one more? All right. Hey, daylight savings time. I get one extra hour to sleep. I only have to get up at 3.30? No. 2.30? 5.30? 430? I don't know. We're falling back, so I get one extra hour of sleep.

beginning on Sunday. I always wonder, why don't they have daylight savings time? It always starts like a 305 or something like that. Why don't they just let us have an extra hour of drinking in the bars? I'd be for that, right? What times last call in Virginia? 2 a.m.? It's like 2 a.m. I think. 2 a.m. in Florida was 3 a.m. The witching hour. Yeah, which nothing ever good came from me being out that late. I'll just tell you that right now. Anyway, that's what people are talking about this morning here on Richmond's morning news. So if anybody asks you, it's daylight saving time. Use correct grammar out there. Stop saying it wrong. Otherwise, you'll catch the wrath of germ who's a real boy. Hey, Rich, what's your favorite candy? You were mentioning Reese's the earlier and stuff. So do you have a favorite candy? Butterfinger. I love Butterfinger? I love Butterfingers. Do I have time to tell a quick story? Yeah, go ahead. So when I was a waiter, we used to serve Butterfinger Pie. So they take ice cream, melt it, and then they take Butterfinger candy bars, and they chop them all up, and then they mix it in them with the ice cream, and then put it in this pie tin crust, and then refreeze it, and that was one of the best desserts, best dessert ever. So when the cooks were making it, I was always really good to the cooks. I'd always overtip them so they'd feed me whatever I wanted. So they would always, they'd have the leftover butterfinger candy, the leftover ice cream with the butterfingers in it. And they'd, hey, Rich, you want some? And they'd put in a coffee cup and I'd sit there and eat ice cream before we started my shift. The manager's always, hey. Herrera, stop eating the butterfingers. I'm like, no, I'm just eating ice cream. You're not supposed to eat that. You know, okay, I'm sorry. It's the leftover stuff. It's a leftover. Yeah. I'm sorry. And, of course, he'd walk around the corner and continue to eat it. So one day he caught me. And he caught me. And he caught the cook. And he goes, what are you doing? He goes, I just gave Rich the left door. He goes, you know I told him not to do it. He goes, yeah. And the manager goes, and besides, he's a big fat, but he doesn't need to be heating ice cream. So he goes, watch this. And he took my Butterfinger candy bar that I had purposely hid in the glass rack where he couldn't see it. And he told the cook, he goes, don't you say anything? And he goes, okay, he took my Butterfinger ice cream. And he put in hot sauce. He put in like half a bottle of Tabasco, and they're mixed it all up, put in more ice cream. Now the cook was in there ratting me out. So they all mixed up. You couldn't tell there was any in there. And I couldn't just, like, sit there and I just had to sneak the spoon of ice cream. So when I got the ice cream, just took a big old heaping spoon of ice cream, put in my mouth, walked away. Boom.

And there are like three cooks and two managers watching me walk around the corner. My head's exploding it's so hot. I wasn't expecting it. And they are laughing hysterically at me. And you don't do hot food too either. No. So they're laughing hysterically at me. Go that'll teach you for being a smart aleck. They should have turned out the lights in the process. Bad, bad, bad, bad. But I still like Butterfingers. Anyway, we'll continue. It's news. Radio WRVA. I got five pieces of candy. I got a chocolate bar. I got a quarter. I got a rock. Trick our cheese! Gee, I got a candy bar. Boy, I got big cookies. Hey, I got a package of gum. I got a rock. Trickartree. I got a popcorn ball. I got a fetch bar. I got a pack of gum. I got a rock. Oh, poor Charlie Brown just got a rock, and he's never been able to kick the football. Darn it. Anyway, welcome everybody. It's Richmond's Morning News. Here on News Radio, W.R.V.A. I'm Rich Rere. Coming up in just a moment, Governor George Allen will join us. We'll talk to him about President Trump's idea of using the nuclear option. nuking the filibuster. We'll get his thoughts on that. A couple people threw in some of their... their comments on the James River Air text line this morning. So he says, I prefer DST. Love the extra light in the morning. I vote we stay on DST. When I first read that, I thought TST, I thought it was TDS. I thought they were voting for Trump-terrangement syndrome. I agree with you. And from RVA says, how does the left-right thing work while you're driving, rich, you're using GPS? You know, yeah. and I'm kind of embarrassed. My son will yell at me, Dad, learn your left from your right, because I'll go, hey, go this way. And he goes, which way is that? I won't say left or right. I'll just use my left hand or my right hand. No, no, turn here, turn here. And he goes, Dad, when I was teaching my driving, dad, dad, I can't take my eyes off the road. No, go this way, go that way. So, yeah, it's my. It's my public shame that thanks to Jeremy, now everybody knows, so that I don't know my left, my right, and I sleep with the nightlight. You're scared to the dark. I'm scared of the night light. You sleep for the night light. Hey, you're on mushrooms? Somebody asked that. Are you crazy this morning or era? No, I just, I'm excited for Halloween. I'm excited for Halloween. My daughter or friends carve over 50 plus pumpkins for Halloween. See, RVA Carvers on Facebook and Instagram says Bill and Henrico. I will. Do you think they carve me up a WRVA pumpkin? Is it too late to ask? I'm okay at carving up pumpkins. Never too late to ask to carve a pumpkin. Check in with the man who's held two very unique positions. One is the governor of our great Commonwealth. The other is a senator who represented this Commonwealth. His name is George Allen. He joins us every Friday here on News Radio, WRVA. Governor, good morning. How are you?

I'm doing great, and it's a good Halloween day. Everyone's getting geared up for Election Day, although over a million people have already voted, but folks are fired up. And I think on both sides, I think there'll be a big turnout of voters when it's all tallied up. I was going to ask, I saw the trick-or-treaters going into the governor's mansion on Monday night. Big question. The most important question I'm going to ask you today is that the Allen household, do you have that same discussion that every couple has? What type of candy? The wife's, okay, let's get enough candy, the husband. I want to give out full-size sticker bars. That's amazing. Last night, Susan and I went over to the Harris Teeter store nearby, and we're going through candies and what together. I guess it was Reese's peanut butter cups. You got to get them. She says it's not for you. It's for kids. I said, well, everyone likes them. And so we got to. A couple bags of those and a bag of Snickers. And so we were going through that. And Susan says, oh, these are, look how many pieces there are plenty. I said, yeah, but these are small. It's funny you bring that up. We actually went to that discussion. I said, no, you've got to let them take a couple, three of them. Right. Yeah, you don't want to just give out one little piece. You might get your car rigged. Well, I don't know about that, but regardless. That's just really. Funny you bring that up. We literally had that discussion in the grocery store last night. Oh, that is outstanding. So we got three big bags of them. So we'll have plenty for any of the kids coming by Airplace. Now, were you able to come to a consensus, or did we have to get to the majority in the filibuster, filibuster-proof majority in the Allen household in order to end this discussion and call the question? No, we just kept moving. We just kept moving. We just kept moving. I had to get my cinnamon flavored applesauce and whatever else were. getting mustard. We didn't just go in for candy. We got some more stuff as well. So the Allen's got more accomplished this week than Congress has in the last 31 days. So I wanted to ask you this. You've been a member of this most august body that we call the United States Senate, the most deliberative body in the entire world. Right now, there's not a lot of deliberation going on. 14 times they brought an amendment forth to have a continuing resolution so we can get this government back to work 14 times it's failed. It's not getting any better. The president says last night, it's time to go nuclear. It's time to end the filibuster. It scares me. I don't like when we change things that have been long-held traditions in order to get some short-term game. Wanted to get your thoughts.

Yeah, I've addressed this when I was a U.S. Senator. First of all, the so-called filibuster or 60-vote rule for cloture to end debate. For your listeners, understand this is not in the U.S. Constitution. This is a Senate rule. The Senate worships process. It drove me nuts, to be honest with you. But they, so this is to protect. the right of what is called unlimited debate, cloture and ending this. And I think that senators ought to be having to talk, not just have to have this vote. I like the old Mr. Smith goes to Washington movie. I think they ought to make them talk rather than obstruct. So this 60-vote threshold. is for most legislation in the U.S. Senate. It has been changed. It hasn't always been the same. The concept of unlimited debate is a tradition. Originally, it was a two-thirds vote to limit debate. Clocher arose really the idea of saying, okay, we're going to limit debate. And we're going to say, all right, we're going to allow three days or 72 hours or 48 hours of debate on a measure. That got changed to a two-thirds vote in World War II. President Wilson was upset. Then later on, it was this filibustering was used to prevent civil rights and laws. And then. In 1975, it was lowered to a three-fifths or 60 votes requirement rather than two-thirds. And again, I think it should make senators actually debate and talk with it. Now, this came up when I was in the U.S. Senate, and President Bush's nominees, including John Bolton to be our U.N. ambassador, and a lot of circuit court judges were being held up by the Democrats. And these nominees for circuit courts all across the country and in the District of Columbia had a majority vote. There were 55, 56 senators who were formed, but the Democrats are obstructing. Now, the Senate role in all of this in the Constitution on nominations is advice and consent. They're to advise and consent, not obstruct. So I was going down, this was in 1975 of the spring, excuse me, 2005. In 2005, there were a lot of us, this is just ridiculous that the Democrats are stopping this. And so we were going into vote. I was going to vote to get rid of this filibuster rule for the executive calendar. In other words, presidential nominations, including judges and members of the cabinet and ambassadors and so forth. And we had the votes to do it, but with this so-called nuclear option, which I thought it was an over-exaggerated phrase for all this. A majority vote is not a nuclear option. It's the way that most legislatures operate in our country and around the world. But at the last second, a deal was made by some of the more moderate Republican senators and the Democrats.

And they made a deal that some of President Bush's nominees for circuit courts would be able to proceed to a vote. Others were thrown overboard and jettisoned. It was about four, seven Republicans, seven Democrats came up with it. My good friend and colleague, Senator John Warner, was part of that group, to avert the nuclear option with a compromise. to allow you know some of them some of these to be voted on well then a few years later the Democrats are in control and President Obama's president in 2013 and the Republicans were obstructing President Obama's nominees and then Harry Reid who was then the leader of the Democrats changed the rule so that a majority could vote on judicial nominees, but not the Supreme Court. They kept the Supreme Court requiring 60 votes for Supreme Court nominees. Then the Republicans in 2017 are in a majority, and President Trump has a bunch of nominees to the Supreme Court. And the Republicans changed the rule for the Supreme Court and saying you don't need a 60-vote margin. It's just a majority for Supreme Court nominees, a vote on them. And three just justices were... confirmed right supreme court the fun part of this rich is you just watching this i remember the the fights we had and the speeches we were giving in 2005 and when the democrats took control they were screaming and yelling how terrible it would be for the republicans to change this and it's the hypocrisy is they just like exchanged their their talking points So what the Democrats were saying in 2005, the Republicans were saying in 2013. And then it just switches back and forth. And my view is I don't think nominees, the budget, reconciliation, you know, extending, paying your bills, the debt limit or keeping the government open should require a supermajority. I think it ought to be a simple majority. I think. That for regular legislation, yeah, you can keep the 60 vote requirement that helps have a more bipartisan and thus more enduring in regular laws and legislation. Actually, I think that this threat, they ought to be ready to do the so-called nuclear option and do away with this. 60 vote requirement for continuing resolution. And I think there'll be a few Democrats who will, there's a few already who are voting, like John Fetterman and a few others. Right. I think others, just to avert the nuclear option, will say, all right, we're going to vote for this because the precedent of this is too much and we want to keep this filibuster rule.

in place in the future. But they're forcing to have this. This is absurd. First of all, I think no member of Congress, Senate or House ought to be getting paid. Their pay ought to be withheld for not even getting the appropriations bills done on time. And this is just ridiculous. It's obscene. It's disgusting. And it's wrong. And so, my view, a simple rule. of saying it's going to be a majority vote to keep the government open, just like paying our debts or debt limits, ought to be a majority vote rather than 60. We're talking with George Allen right now here on News Radio, WRV. We don't have much time. We've got to get to our NFL picks, but I do have to, one thing just popped into my head. So we've had people that said, hey, I write Kane, I write Warner, but we're actually getting bounced back emails. Sorry, no one's going to be checking this because of the government shutdown as they call to tell people in D.C. Hey, please get the government back to work. How many people need to call a senator's office to get them to pay attention or to understand what their constituents are saying, to be effectively communicating with them? How many people need to reach out to them? Everyone. Everyone who cares about it. You should call, email. Either way. When I would walk into my Senate office every morning. They usually would be somebody who's an intern who's answering the phone or, you know, a rookie answering the phone. And so I said, all right, what are the calls? What calls are coming in? What issues are there? you know, just, you know, what's hot, you know, what's got, who's agitated, who's organized, who's wanting to express their views. So for me, as a U.S. Senator, when I'd walk in my office, I would say, and they would keep a tally. I'd want them to keep a tally. And I said, all right, are these form, you know, like if you get form cards in the mail or if it's, or if it's a, you know, a wrote statement, you said, all right, well, some group is organized to get people to sign these and mail in these postcards. or calling in. So for me, it was influential. So I think the more people, number one, call, number two, email. Number three, go to their social media page. Go to their Facebook page. If they have Twitter, whatever social media they have, and express your views there. They're representatives of the people. The people are the owners of the government. And they need to feel. what the people's sentiment are about this. And I just can't imagine that a majority of people are not really agitated, aggravated, and disgusted by this lack of action.

I never even thought about the Facebook pages and the social media in order to make your voice be heard. That's outstanding. I love that right there. So, folks, if you want to tell our senators that you want them to either stand their ground and try to get those Affordable Care Act subsidies extended, then you can reach out to them, you can call them, you can email them, you can post on the social media channels, or if you want them to get the government back and you want them to vote a different way. You could do that as well. So, again, the more that they hear from the constituents, the more apt they are to make a move. All right. So are you ready to talk some football? Right. Yeah, we'll talk to football. They have a set limit, and the majority, whoever gets the most points wins in sports. Life should be like that, where it's all a meritocracy. I outscore you, I win, not based on anything else. Okay, I got the Seahawks and the Washington Redskins. playing at home on Sunday night football. The Redskins are 3 and 5. They will have Jayden Daniels back, but they'll be out with McLaren. Seahawks 5 and 2. Who do you like, sir? McLaren is out? I think McLaren's out. That's what Gary said this morning. Oh, gee. That's a big loss. Okay, with McLaren out. I think the commodes have a better defense. Excuse me, a better quarterback, but Seattle has a better defense. I'm going to go with Seattle flushing the commodes on Sunday night. Hey, do not ever leave your commode unflushed. I'll agree with you and take the Seahawks. Then I'm Monday at football. I'm not sure I even want to watch this game, sir. I'll be getting ready for the election watching Fox News and Newsmax. I got the Cardinals and the Dallas Cowboys playing in Dallas. I guess they couldn't flex a better game in. So who do you like in that one? Well, in this case, the Cowboys have, Dak Prescott is playing very well, and they have a better quarterback than Arizona. Both teams have abysmal defenses. I think it will be a high scoring game, and the Cowboys will win at home. I'm going to go Cardinals just to disagree with you. I'll take the Cardinals over the Cowboys because the Cowboys just stink. I know, but Arizona. Arizona is not a pleasant smell either. No, no, they both are... I'm talking about the team, not the Grand Canyon State. Not the Grand Canyon State. No, Rigney's right now finishing school at the University of Arizona. I would harp on him, but no, I'll take... You got the Cowboys, I'll take the Cardinals. By the way, I did have this one question I wanted to ask you. If George Allen is just going to put on some NFL gear... on the weekend. If you just feel like grabbing an NFL hoodie, what do you have in your closet? Do you have Rams? Do you have Redskins? Do you have Raiders? What do you have? I have Raiders. I have some great Raiders gear, probably more Raiders gear than anything else.

I have a Tampa Bay Buccaneers jacket that I'll wear every now and then. I have Redskins stuff with the Redskins logo that when I want to upset people, you know, just, you like, I like friction. I wear that. Let's see. I'm sure I have, yeah, I have some Rams stuff. Oh, I have, I have some T-shirts that when my father was the Rams in the Coliseum, you could go in the other team's locker room. and clean up. And so I got Philadelphia Eagles T-shirts, Cleveland Browns. I have even a Baltimore Colts T-shirts. So, you know, they'd wear shirts with their names T-shirts. Now, these shirts are getting a little threadbare. So I got a lot of them. This year, I don't have one, but because our nephew, Anton, is with the Detroit Lions. If I had that, I would wear that. Yeah, my main team that I'm for as the Tennessee volunteers. Well, 100%. Sir, thank you so much, and I will catch up in the next week. All right. Don't trick anyone. Just treat them. There you go. Have a winning weekend. Absolutely. Audio, sir. Thank you so much. Governor George Allen joining us here on News Radio, WRVA. Come on, everybody, get up and dance.

They did the mesh. It was a mesh. All right. See, I like this Halloween song. Okay. So this works. This works. One more time. Thank you so much. Germ back there. That's the one Halloween song that I like. That one makes the cut. That one makes the cut. The rest scare me. Thanks to Governor Allen for joining us here. I got a great text message. This is Chris in Newport News. Wouldn't it be a trip to post this sign tonight on the front tour as kids visit trick-or-treating? Do the Democrat, do the Democrat Senator Tim Keynes and Democrat Senator Mark Warner's unwillingness to keep the government open. We regretfully cannot supply you with the usual free candy following. Instead, please feel free to help yourself to a free piece of candy corn. and have a, but have that bite of candy at the front door. I take the whole, I take the whole bowl. I love candy corn. Attention, due to the government shutdown by the Democrats, we are not able to fund our Halloween candy. Instead, have this candy corn courtesy of the Democratic Party. Yeah. Well, listen, I like candy corn. And you know, another thing about that, the Monster Mash, it recently topped the Billboard chart. I don't know if you remember about a year or so ago, Brenda Lee and rocking around the Christmas tree, like that hit the top of the billboard chart like all these years later. Monster Mash actually hit the top of the billboard chart just about a week or so ago. Wow. Yeah. I like that. Somebody else says hit Warner and came up on passing a clean CR. Those are the prominent post on their Facebook pages this morning. Yeah, and the thing about those on social media, I will tell you this. They'll get embarrassed. The more you hammer them, they'll take notice. And like the governor said, he would walk in. He'd ask the intern, hey, what are people talking about? What are they squawking about this morning? And the more people that call in, and they'll keep a scorecard. I told you this. They'll keep a scorecard. Lobbyist told me they get 60 telephones, emails, or letters on a subject. It goes to a priority list for the legislative aid. And if more comes on after that, more come on, then they'd bring it up to the senator's attention. Governor Allen was very good about going in and asking them, what are people talking about? Others, you really got to get them to pay attention. So that's when they say, hey, call your Congress or call your senator. Now, when you call, you feel like, oh.

It's some intern. They're not going to listen to me. I want to talk to the center. All you got to do is make sure you hit that scorecard, and they'll know that people are upset. That's how you move the needle in Washington. Coming up next, moving the needle with Dave Saunders. He'll tell us what to do this weekend in Richmond. All that coming up on News Radio, WRVA. Thanks for joining us, everybody. It's News Radio, WRVA. It is the 9 o'clock hour. We're going to turn open the phone lines to you in just a bit. Before we do that, though, we want to find out what's going on around Richmond, Virginia, right? Happy birthday, Mr. President. Happy birthday to meet. Oh, Dave Saunders will be celebrating a sweet 16 this weekend. Happy birthday, Dave Saunders. I think you, Richard Herrera. I certainly do appreciate that. That is the... First time I've ever been serenaded by Marilyn Monroe. I appreciate that. It won't be the last if we have anything to do with it. That's all 100% germ. He's, you know, he's not AI. He's not really, everybody thought he was artificial intelligence from the Jeff Kat Show, but he's actually a real-life living boy that inhales Jeff Katzogs when he comes to the Texas Inn. Germ is a living breeding chili dog eating machine. This is this is correct. I appreciate the sentiment. Yes, it is Halloween. It's also my 58th trip around the sun. And I will get lots of jokes today. Oh, that's it. That's why, you know. Listen, you don't look a day over 85. I mean, oh, 50. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I transpose those. Oh, yeah, man. I'm feeling it every bit. But, you know, speaking of feeling it, we've got the feel good event of the weekend as we do every Friday morning at 905. The Richmond City Sheriff's Office is having their eighth annual trunk or treat today down at 1701 Fairfield Way in Richmond. That's five to eight. They partner with public safety agencies and community leaders and a few corporate partners and folks that help donate the candy. Five to eight, you can bring the whole family there. It's a safe, fun, festive trick-or-treating event for a lot of folks. And there's going to be a few prizes for creative costumes and also the most decorated trunk, trunk or treat down at the Richmond City Sheriff's Office. And so worth checking that out. There are lots of trunk or treats around, but also something for the whole family to do this weekend, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. You've got Garden Glow presented by Kroger out at Maymont.

Our beautiful public garden here in Richmond, the times vary, so you have to check out maymont.org. But they turn light and a little bit of magic, and they take over the entire Maymont Park after dark, and you can wander through all the light installations out there, some by local artists and some by international artists. Interesting, very interesting. All right, what else are we going to do this weekend? Well, Halloween brings out an amazing assortment of characters, not just the little ones walking around the neighborhood, but you will see an amazing assortment of characters at the 20th annual All the Saints Richmond Halloween Parade. This has become quite the tradition on Halloween night. You start off at Monroe Park near VCU, and they take a route through Oregon Hill. They're like these giant handmade puppets. They've got marching bands. They've got a various band of misfits out there. Lots of people dress up in very, very strange and unique Halloween fast games. Six o'clock start, start at the park and follow the parade. Or if you're in and around the streets, around VCU or in Hill, you'll see them pass by. I got a non-Halline event tonight. Really kind of neat, too. I just discovered this guy, Ty Myers. He's going to be at the National tonight, 8 o'clock. Now get this. You've never heard of him, but tickets started $125. But I'll tell you why, Rich. Why? Well, I'll tell you why. He's only 18 years old, and he's a platinum-winning country artist from the Hill Country of Texas. He's taken off on TikTok and produced his first album. after going viral in 2023 at the tender age of 16. He's 18 now and touring the entire country. And from all accounts, you know, with the number one hit song out there, This is a chance to see a future superstar at a small event space, the National, right there on Broad. So check it out. So you can be one of those guys. You can be one of those guys. I saw him way, way back like in 2025 at the National. There was like five of us there, so I'm his biggest fan. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I tell people all the time, I saw Beck in 1992, and I thought he was terrible, and the next thing I know he was a Grammy winner. I met Blake Shelton when he had the mullet. He sat in my office for like 20 minutes. I'm like, I got work to do. Can you get out of here? So, yeah, you might be able to say I knew him when.

You got it. Well, there's. Also, probably the biggest Rocky Horror Picture Show event of the season is one night only here at the Dominion Energy Center for the Performing Arts. 7 o'clock, and they're encouraging the costumes and the callbacks and all the stuff, but they're begging people don't bring props into that beautiful story here. So Rocky Hard Picture Show tonight at 7, check out the Dominion Energy Center box office for tickets. And for big events to small events, there's a small one on Hanover. in the fan. They call it Halloween on Hanover. It's four blocks from the 1800 block to the 2,200 block. And every year, all the neighbors, all the families come together to create a larger-than-life trick-or-cheating experience. They get... people from all over the city coming to these four blocks. Last year, I think they had a full pirate ship complete with the characters of Pirates of the Caribbean, and they were actually wheeling it around the entire neighborhood. And so there's candy. It's kind of like an old-fashioned Halloween where everybody comes out. Nobody's afraid to knock on the door. So check out the 18 to 2,200 block of Hanover. They've got plenty of candy, and those are going to be... Lots of Halloween madness. I recommend getting there before dark because there are big crowds. Also tonight, Big Show, it's a three-way bill for 90s cover bands at the Broadbury. It came from the 90s, is the big headlining act with the supporting acts 1996 and Areya Madfrit. Doors start, doors open at eight, show starts at nine. Tickets are only 22 bucks. But they are highly encouraging the costumes because they have four different costume contexts with cash prices. Right there at the Brogbury, check it out. You might want to check out the website and get your tickets early because there were a few left this morning. And then Saturday, you don't need a ticket for this. Okay. You just need a costume, and you just need to be able to walk around Scott's Edition. This is the booze crawl. Get it? B-O-O. All right. Booze crawl. Oh, okay. That sounds like that. Yes. All the satiries, all the breweries, all the distilleries, everything in Scott's edition that makes some form of alcohol is participating. Three-notched Ardent Star Hill, I could go on and on and on and on. I will be going on and on and on if I went on this. Yes, 12 to 8. It is a walking crawl and then a stumbling crawl, probably closer to 8, but if you get five stamps.

uh you at any of the participating uh of scott's edition places you can enter to get a gift card um for your beverage maker of choice and what if i get twice as many yeah well there you go you get the every five i guess you can enter to win again yeah um but if herrera goes he'll be in trouble There should be a line of Uber's lining up on Broad and Boulevard, ready to take hundreds and hundreds of people home tomorrow night at 8. Also, something worth mentioning. This is really weird. I've never heard of this before. Saturday and Sunday, the Richmond Coffee Festival is at the convention center. It runs during the day, Saturday and Sunday, 8.30 a.m. to 4. 30 p.m. tickets are 17 bucks, but apparently they have coffees from all over the world and everything coffee that you could ever think of. And one of my favorite authors, Mark Pendergrass, is actually speaking on Saturday. So check that out. And then I've got one last thing. It's almost too sad to mention, but I am going to mention it anyway. Okay. Tomorrow after Halloween. The Christmas stuff starts. Yes! It's Santa's arrival at Bass Pro shops out in Ashland, five to seven tomorrow night. You can bring the whole family out there to experience the magic of Santa's Wonderland, and Santa will be cruising into town. and kicking off the, kicking off the big event at Bass Pro Shop. That event runs pretty much through the holiday season. You can go to bashpro.com slash Santa and make a reservation to see the jolly old elf himself. Is it too early to start wearing my Christmas gear? You know, I think you do you, you know. For me, I'm going to wait until Black Friday to start celebrating. But, yeah, I just want to usually get through the Thanksgiving holiday first before I do that. I asked yesterday, so we were, I have this really great Vineyard Vineyard Vine, Santa, long-sleeved T-shirt. I'm like, can I wear that this weekend? And my wife said, no. I said, why can't they start wearing Christmas stuff just quite yet? I've got like a whole closet full of. Christmas Hawaiian shirts that I always break out for the holidays. And she goes, no, you have to wait until after Thanksgiving. I'm like, no, I'm going to start wearing them now. I'm already in the hospital. It's already cold. I'm in the festive spirit. I was just over at Green Top Sporting Goods. Yesterday, I'm begging them to let me do the show on Black Friday from their place, and I can hang out and I don't know, hand out hot chocolate or something before I go in and looking for a new jacket or something. So I don't know about you, Dave. I'm already ready for the holidays. Oh, yeah, and Green Top's the best. I'll be setting up a tent outside the Thanksgiving night just to make sure I can hit the deals on Friday morning. Oh, listen, I'm seriously, I've told him, I said, can I come out and do the show at 6 a.m.? We'll get hot chocolate. I said, give me a couple of grills out there. I'll cook for everybody. So I'm trying to see whether they're going to let me have my fantasy come true of being the first one in the line in the store on Black Friday.

Well, I will make a deal with you. If you're out at Greenchop that Friday morning, I will come out there as well and we'll do this in person and sit over the phone. Done. Get them on the phone. Done. All right, Dave, happy birthday to you, my friend. Let me just take just a half second here, Jeremy. Listen, there's a lot. You've got a lot going on. You've got your agency. You've got the four Texas ins. You've got great people that work with you. So I wanted to say this just on behalf of everybody that's around your universe. And you've been so kind to me since I've come over to jump into this anchor chair. And I know you give so much back to the community. You do so much with Jeff Katz and Special Olympics. That's just the tip of the iceberg of the stuff that you do that you don't want people to know about because you're doing it for the right reason, not for publicity. I just want to wish you a very special, happy birthday on behalf of everybody that runs around in your universe. I mean, it's your world. I'm just following you along. But from everybody I talked, everybody knows, people that listen, they always stop me, and they love when we do this on Friday. I just wanted to wish you sincerely a very happy birthday. We're all appreciative to have you on our lives. Rich, that really means a lot to me. I appreciate it. So, yeah, I appreciate it. And let's keep doing what we do. See, look, folks, I'm making him blush right now. He's 58 years old. He can still blush. That means you're still a young man. Yeah, there you go. There you go. All right. I'm going to have a Jeff Katz-dog in your honor later today. All right. I'll see you there. Thanks, Rich. All right. Happy birthday and happy Halloween. Dave Saunders. Madison, Maine, joins us every Friday here on News Radio. W.R. I have no idea where that's from. Garfield. What is it? Garfield's Halloween special. Oh, Garfield's Halloween special. All right, so we had the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown now the Garfield Halloween special, courtesy of Germ, the real live human being that's behind the glass today. Is that Benverein singing? No, it's Lou Rawls. A Lou Rawls. Yeah. You know, he used to do all of the songs for all those old Garfield specials back in the 80s. Really? Yeah, if you watch, I mean, the whole lot of them, starting when they started first coming out. He would always sing songs, and it was kind of a thing. Best cartoon ever. Oh, quick. For me, my favorite is Brave Star, but I'm kind of a... Brave Star. I've never even heard of that. Yeah, it's Filmation, 1987. You know, they're going to remake He-Man, Master of the Universe. They're doing a movie. Oh, I have action movie. Filmation is the same company that did Brave Star, but also did He-Man. Yeah, so they made the Barbie movie. Now they're going to do a live action of He-Man, Master the Universe.

I'd only watched if they had Ryan Gosling as he man. Is he man? No, I mean, he's not, but that would be pretty great, though. That'd be fantastic. How about if they did Thundercats? I mean, Thundercats is okay. Thunder, Thunder, Thundercats is okay. I was a Silverhawks guy, which was once again. That was by Rankin and Bass who did Thundercats, but, yeah, I'm all into that stuff. Cartoons are great. Which is better. Super Friends of the Justice League. Ooh, Super Friends. Super Friends had Wendy, Marvin, and Wonder Dog. Yeah, Super Friends. And then somehow they got left out when they moved into the Justice League. There were Chuck, Richie Cunningham's older brother that just disappeared. So did Marvin, Wendy, and Superdog. Do you remember who they replaced him with? Who did they replace him with? Oh, you don't know? No, not really. Not this one. The Wonder Twins. Zach and Jana and they had a monkey named Gleek. Oh, I do remember Gleek. Yeah. Wonder Twin Powers. Form of this. That was Hannah Barberra. That was Hannah Barberra, right? Wasn't that Hannah Barbera? I don't know. I don't know. Anyway. I'm an 80s kid, so I'm all about 80s kid. I'm all about being. I'm very proud. You know what? I'm very proud member of Gen X. So I'm what is called an exzenial because. I had to grow up with analog and then move into digital. I've always had the internet. Right. So I was kind of like that middle couple of years where it's like kind of Gen X, kind of millennial, because we had to go back. Yeah, go back and forth. Oh, somebody said they've already done a live action of Heman. They have. They've done a live action. With Dolph Lundgren. That was great. So cheesy, so bad. Yeah. Which is better. The first G.I. Joe. Or the second G.I. Joe. The first one with, I don't even know who was in it. What's about Channing Tatum? Channy. Tatum was in the first one? In the way it? He was in the second one. Was it? He was in the second one. I like the cartoon. No, no. He was the first one, and then Rock was in the second one. Right. Yeah, I'm a cartoon guy. Yeah, I love G.I. Joe the cartoon. Anyway, all right. Oh, I'm sorry. You know what? It's time for We the People. I mean, we can open the phone call. Well, I was thinking to just take it a page out Rush Limbaugh's playbook. You know, this is a long time home of Rush. I was just thinking about this. I was watching Charlie Kirk's widow. How brave is she to be out there, and they had a big turning point USA event, and I think half the school showed up at old, I think they were an old miss. And JD Vance is there with her, and she says, we're not going to let Charlie's legacy ever leave us. Charlie's legacy. is also Rush Limbaugh's legacy because Charlie told Rush that he was a Rush baby, that he grew up, his parents listening to Rush Limbaugh, and that helped him kind of form where he was going to go. So I was thinking about this. We walk in every day. You walk in the same door I do, right? So we have a multiple. No, wait, wait, wait a minute. No, I come in from a helicopter down on the roof. They drop a line down, and then I slide, you know. You and the Navy SEALs fast rope into the building every day. They always tell me to wear black, but I don't.

No, he's standing there with his GI Joe t-shirt. No, but I walk in through this one corridor in the building here at the Odyssey Richmond Complex, and I walk by and there's old photos and current photos of pretty much the history of WRVA. So there's Aldenero in a couple different photos and the capital squirrel. And Rush Limbaugh is in one of the picture frames. So I walk by every day and I look at Aldenairo and look at Rush. I'm thankful for them. So I was thinking about Fridays when we do weed the people in honor of Rush who would always have. And I always like listening to Rush do his open line Fridays. So maybe we honor Rush Limbaugh on Fridays when we have We the People, we do Open Line Friday. Normally I say, hey, here's where we're going to go. Here's what I want to talk about today. But I'm going to experiment with you since it's Halloween, and most of you are wearing masks anyway. Wait, wait, wait. If I could sit there and make a suggestion, I think that people should call in and tell us what their favorite candy is and what their favorite outfit was when they dressed up for Halloween. Well, you know, somebody recognized me yesterday. It's because of your shoes. When I went to the Jason Mioris, because I had the best fit. I had this new Philson jacket on that I got, which is. Would you say Riz? I have Riz. Is that what you? Well, I have, I have Riz. And it, and it drips. And it drips. And I'm given, I'm given, you need a paper towel for that? No, it's a compliment. And then I'm given model energy. With your drip Riz. I was wearing my Stetson. I got a new Philson jacket from, from Green Top yesterday. Just really nice coat. and she walked up. She goes, I could tell you're Rich Herrera. She said, how? And she goes, buy your shoes. She noticed I had the best shoes in the whole place. Sorry, Attorney General Mioris, but my shoes ranked higher than yours. I got mad shoe game. All right, so let's do this. We'll do open phone lines. 833, 804, 1140, 833, 804, 1140. In honor, rush them ball, we'll open them up, but Jeremy says, and I agree with him, favorite candy. Favorite Halloween outfit you ever had. Love to hear of that this morning. Let's just, you know what? There's so much crazy in the world as the pre-setted St. Mary's. You know what the world needs right now? A little less crazy. Let's just enjoy Halloween. And if you want to talk politics and all the rest we can, 833, 804, 1140, 833, 804, 1140. Open phone lines and honor of Rush here on News Radio, WRVA.

Ghostbusters. I like that. Who are you going to call? Ghostbusters or Rich Herrera. It's open line Friday here. And again, I'm not stealing it. I'm using it to pay homage to the Great Rush Limbaugh, who I think all of us really miss. I think all of us really do miss El Rushbo. Especially in times like this, I'd love to hear. I wish I could, I know what he'd say. in the world that we're living in. Could you imagine him talking about Zohran Mamdani right now? What's going on with the shutdown? The world misses Rush Limbaugh right now. I will tell you that. Number for you to join us. 833, 804, 1140, 833, 804, 1140. Open phone lines. They're wide open right now. Jump on. We'll take your telephone call here. 833, 804, 1140. We have one. Okay, where do you want to go right now? We have Joan, and she's calling from Chesterfield. All right, Joan and Chesterfield. Welcome. You're on News Radio, WRVA. Good morning. I was just in Chesterfield last night. Okay, good morning. I miss Rush, too. Don't you? Yes. Yeah, very much so. I remember, man, I remember, I've worked at a couple of radio stations where Rush was on, and believe it or not, Joan, he was on in San Francisco, California. and he was the star of our radio station. Everybody at the station, except for me, couldn't stand him because he was so conservative, and I was the only conservative, but I really didn't say anything because it was just a kid. And I remember he came to the station, and I'm like, oh, my gosh, my gosh, my boss said, I don't want you over here just drooling at Rush Limbaugh, so he wouldn't let me come into the station and meet him that day. And I regret that ever since.

So? Well, I called to tell you about my candy. Yes. This is why I want to know. Tell me. Talk to me. I like M&M. Plain or peanut? Oh, plain. Okay. Big difference between the two. Yes. And my favorite costume was I was a cat. in a black leotard, lactate, the tail, the earmuffs, thingies, and my husband was a cat burglar. See, this is a family show, so I'm just going to leave that right there. And that was about 40 years ago. Now, who picked out the outfit? Oh, I did. Now, did you have to twist his arm to wear the outfit or did he gladly come along? Oh, he gladly came along because all he had to do was just... Put on like a jacket and carry a flashlight in a stocking cap. See, why are guys like that? Why are we so reticent to do fun things like that? Do you ever notice guys like, hey, come on, you've got to push control and kind of push and shove them to do something fun like that? Why are men like that?

Yeah. You'd be very rich if you could come up with the answer. Life would just be easier if we just listened, right? Of course. I mean, that would make life so much easier. My dad just tell me all the time, just listen, just do what she says, and life will be so much easier. Smart dad. Yeah. You know, he also used to tell me is he said, don't keep score. He said, if you keep score, you're in trouble. He said marriage is a 75, 25% proposition, but, no, he said 60, sorry, 60 proposition, but don't ever keep score because you don't want to know whether you're giving 60 or getting 60. So that was his great advice to me. All right. I like it. Eminem's Cat burglar and a cat. I like that very much. I hope you have a great Halloween night and a great weekend. Thank you. You too. All right. Take care. That's awfully sweet. That opens up a phone line for you. 833, 804, 1140, 833, 804, 1140. Somebody was bringing up this weekend on Sunday. will be the 100th anniversary. So when we come back to work on Monday, this will be a 100-year-old station. That's hard to imagine, 100 years of News Radio, WRVA. So somebody asked us on the text line this morning. On another note, does WRVA have a library that you have access to with the WRVA 100th anniversary approaching? I wonder if you, especially as the member, newest member of the WRVA family, look like a vinyl record album that I have that covers the history of the station from 25 to 75. Yeah, I'd love to be able to have one. I actually have one. It's right next to my office. There's one that... My friend Nurse Wendy gave me that's, I think it's an Alden Aro Christmas album that he would do. So yeah, no, please hit us up here at the station or call in right now and get this information. I'd love to get my hands on that for you and I'll. That's Susan. Susan, let me know. We'd love to be able to get that. I appreciate it very much. Let's see. Somebody else already had this one. question that I wanted to answer. Rich, I have some questions concerning SNAP benefits during the Democratic shutdown that I haven't heard discuss. So I did some research. I found that. SNAP recipients, other than Virginians, will eventually receive back payments that were not distributed during the shutdown. However, beneficiaries in Virginia will not receive those federal payments as our great governor will have made equal funds available through the VENA program. Also, the payments that the federal government did not issue to Virginians during the shutdown will reimburse to the Commonwealth once the shutdown is ended.

Yep, 100%. And that's the whole thing about the shutdown. It's actually just kind of mean. Because eventually you're going to get your money. We're just not going to give it to you right now. So we're going to make you hungry, and then we're going to have you sit there and look at a big steak on the other side of the glass, and you're just going to have to sit there and look at it and you know you're going to get it one day, so you're not going to die of starvation, but it doesn't do you any good today. Nobody's going to die of starvation during this government shutdown, but you certainly aren't going to be able to eat, literally. So people in the private sector, you government employees. Nah, who cares? You'll eventually get your money. I know this now living in Virginia, the federal workers that we have, 2.3 million? There are some benefits to being a federal employee. Let's be honest. There's also some certainty that comes with that job, and when we take that away from you, you don't know how to react. And the private sector, you can get fired whenever somebody has a whim and go, ah, we're getting rid of that guy. We're having it, we call it a riff, a reduction in force. We don't have, by the way, I'm not sure if you know this. There's no such thing as layoffs anymore in America. We don't lay people off because that's rude, that's crude, that's mean, that's hateful, that destroys people's livelihood. So now we have something called a riff. A riff is... politically correct term to say you're fired. So nobody gets that you're fired. We're having mass layoffs. We're having a reduction in force because that sounds so much better, so much more politically correct. That seems more humane. We're going to have a reduction in force today. Oh, what's that mean? Well, we're laying off 500 people. Oh, why don't you just call a laugh? Because then we look mean in the Wall Street Journal. So instead we'll call it something more genteel like a riff, a reduction in force. Does it matter? No. Because the people that are getting rift are the same ones who got laid off and fired and have to go home and tell their family I lost my job. And I will tell you for someone who has been rift, there is nothing worse than having to look your kid in the eye and say, Son, I lost my job today. And having the look on their face of fear, anxiety, disappointment, they're scared, they're concerned for you, that look of complete lack of control in their life because you have no control in your life is the worst thing that... This is the worst part of all of this. Having to go home and tell your wife you lost your job is horrible because she's looking going, what are we going to do? Having to tell your kids, your wife will think about, okay, what are we going to do? How are we going to survive? Your kids, you just pulled out the rug from underneath them. That's the worst part of having to go tell your son.

This job that you love, that you dedicated your life to, that you did everything for, that you missed all of his little league games and all of his plays and everything to work. And you got to tell him, they just let me go. And they look at you like, what are we going to do next? And when you don't have an answer, that's the pain of losing your job. That's the pain to lose it in your job. So when people lose their jobs, a lot of times we try to make it as benign as possible. But for those individuals, and if you've ever experienced this, it's painful, it hurts. It's soul-sucking. Therefore, when we talk about these things, you know, it's hard to have enough compassion. Sometimes we have too much compassion, but they're individuals. And I bring that up because this whole thing with this government shutdown. How much compassion are we getting out of the people in D.C. right now? They're still getting paid. They're still getting paid, right? They're not hurting. Then again, let's be honest. I mean, they get a lot of their income from other places, not that particular salary. But still, I mean, they're still getting paid. By law, you have to pay them. You can't withhold the checks of congressmen or the senators. By the way, we pointed this out. 27th Amendment that pays them no matter what was actually supposed to be inside the bill of rights. It was supposed to be 11 bills of rights, including the Congress got paid for some reason. It didn't get ratified. We didn't ratified until almost 200 years later. But anyway, back to those people that are... being laid off, being furloughed, or being forced to work with no paycheck. It's like standing there and an all-you-can-eat buffet, watching everybody else eat because everybody else is getting paid, but you still got to show up and work, and they keep that from you. You know eventually you're going to get fed, but it doesn't do anything for you today while you're starving and you're hungry and you want something to eat so bad and you could see it, but you can't taste it. But you can't taste it. That's the cruel part of all of this. And it all comes down to Obamacare and something even more, and the more I look into this, like our listener had looked into all of this. It all comes down to two things. This American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act. Remember, the Inflation Reduction Act was really the Green New Deal rebranded to the Inflation Reduction Act. So why would the reduction, the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act have anything to do with our health care other than it was pork shoved in there? And why did they have an end in 2025? Because they would have gone through and scored it, the Congressional Budget Office and says, oh, this is how much is going to cost the American taxpayers. If you put it in and you had it for more than three years, the amount of money that you were trying to hide inside the Inflation Reduction Act and the American Rescue Plan would have shown up on the ledger. And the news media would have seen, wait a minute, they want to add $1.5 trillion to the deficit. So they snuck it in.

put a sunset on it, knowing that in the end of 2025, if Kamala Harris is president, whoever is president on the Democrats had out, we'll just continue it. And if it's the Republicans, then we'll fight for it. Because the whole thing was a farce to shove those into the American Rescue Plan, and then the misbranded inflation reduction act, the Obamacare subsidies were stuck in there, and now the American people are stuck with them. And we'll see when this government shutdown will end. I don't think it's going to end anytime soon. I'm a fairly optimistic person by nature, but I'm pessimistic because if Chuck Schumer caves in, the progressive wing of the Democratic Party will eat his lunch. If Hakeem Jeffries gives in, they will come in him with the long knives and run him out of town. So they're in for a penny and they're in for a pound. They've got so much invested. They cannot afford to give in to the president, reopen the government, and have their caucus not come after them and not have part of their base come after them. So the die is cast. They're not going to give in. They're not going to give in no matter what, because once Chuck Schumer and what's Hakeem Jeffries and the leadership gives in, or even if they have people that peel off to go do their own thing, It'll come back and bite them and it'll bite them hard. So I think they're going to try to tow the line as long as humanly possible. And again, like Jay Jones said, People don't change policy unless you feel personal pain. And that's what's going through for the American people right now. So we'll see if I come back on Monday and we're still talking about the government shutdown. Chances are it'll be November and we'll be talking about the government shutdown. Anyway, that's going to do it for the program for today. Happy Halloween. While you're out there about trick-or-treating, please make sure you slow down. Lots of kids, lots of masks to get excited. They're already hopped up on candy, too much sugar. So tonight just take it down just a notch. just a notch so we keep everybody safe tonight as their trick-or-treating. All right, that's going to do it for the program for today. Thanks so much to Germ for joining us for the Jeff Katz show. He'll be back doing double duty. Jeff Katz comes back at 3 o'clock this afternoon. But right now, time for a national anthem brought to you by Freedom Services and training the biggest gun store in town located in Mechanicsville. As we end up every program here on News Radio, WRVA in the morning, it's time for our national anthem. And again, I want to thank everybody for being part of the program. I'll see you back here Monday at 6 a.m. right here on News Radio, WRVA.