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09/29/2026 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Ric Cavender, Billy Brown · The Dave Allen Show

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  Speaker 1: The views and opinions expressed on this program do not
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  Speaker 1: the United States of America, the state, West Virginia, the city, Charleston,
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  Speaker 1: this is the Dave Allen Show on 580 Live.
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  Speaker 2: And your host. What we've got here is failure to communicate.
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  Speaker 2: He's kind of a big deal.
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  Speaker 3: I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm all out of bubblegum.
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  Speaker 2: Dave Allens. And a good Tuesday morning to you and
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  Speaker 2: welcome to the show. Senior producer Ryan Nicholson is in
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  Speaker 2: for more information. Tuesday edition of the show, Metro News
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  Speaker 2: meteorologist Brian Hughes says sunny and pleasant today. Highs are
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  Speaker 2: going to be in the mid-70s. Clear and cool tonight
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  Speaker 2: with a low in the mid-50s. Tomorrow, sunny and warmer.
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  Speaker 2: Should be in the low 80s. Sunny and warm on
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  Speaker 2: Thursday with a high in the mid-80s. Could see some
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  Speaker 2: showers and storms as we head into the weekend. Mid-80s
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  Speaker 2: with rain around on Friday and a chance of rain
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday as well, temps below 70s. You can download
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  Speaker 2: team of weather pros and follow along on social media
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  Speaker 2: as well. Mentioned this yesterday, if you turned your radio
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  Speaker 2: on to one of our sister stations, Superstar Country 96.1
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  Speaker 2: KWS yesterday, you may have heard a familiar voice who
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  Speaker 2: has rejoined the family here, Billy Brown. He's your new
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  Speaker 2: morning guy over on Superstar Country KWS. Great to have
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  Speaker 2: him back with us within the family here at the
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  Speaker 2: Radio Ranch. He's going to join us later on the show. Also,
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  Speaker 2: a big happening tonight at the Putnam County Commission meeting
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  Speaker 2: where the controversial data center for Buffalo is going to
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  Speaker 2: be discussed. We'll get into that story, some other things
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  Speaker 2: in the news as well. Do want to pass this along, though.
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  Speaker 2: I had several people who reached out to me about
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  Speaker 2: Danny Jones, who is normally on the show with me
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  Speaker 2: every Monday. Danny, of course, now enjoys dual citizenship in
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  Speaker 2: both West Virginia and in California. Uh, Danny's in California
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  Speaker 2: for a few weeks, reached out to him to put
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  Speaker 2: him on the show yesterday. We couldn't reach him, got
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  Speaker 2: a little bit worried about him. He did call me
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  Speaker 2: later in the day though, and say, he's fine. He's,
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  Speaker 2: he simply didn't hear his phone ring. So, uh, Danny, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Here's what you got to do. You got to go
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  Speaker 2: find somebody to turn that ringer back on again for you.
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  Speaker 2: That's all you got to do, my friend. But he
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  Speaker 2: called me and text me, you know, called and text
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  Speaker 2: and said, very, very sorry. So we'll have him back
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  Speaker 2: with us on Monday. Big doings over in the West End,
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  Speaker 2: Elk City on Saturday, the annual October West event presented
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  Speaker 2: by Charleston Urban Works. It's happening here to talk about
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  Speaker 2: the executive director of Charleston Urban Works, Rick Cavender. Good morning, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Dave.
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  Speaker 5: How are you doing, sir?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing fine. By the way, happy coffee day.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, is that a thing?
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  Speaker 2: I understand. It is National Coffee Day.
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  Speaker 6: I knew yesterday was National Suns Day, I believe.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always something. But today is National Coffee Day,
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  Speaker 2: from what I understand. Are you a coffee eater?
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  Speaker 6: You know what? I was for years. I actually stopped
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  Speaker 6: about three months ago.
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  Speaker 7: Really?
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  Speaker 2: Because I was going to say, normally when you come
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  Speaker 2: in here, you have some sort of.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm trying to get all of my vices cleared.
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  Speaker 6: Sort of eradicated. Caffeine was one of them.
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  Speaker 2: One at a time. One at a time. We'll work
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  Speaker 2: on the rest of them later.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: I regret, as I told you earlier, I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to be able to be there this weekend. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to be on sort of a mini vacation. I'm there
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  Speaker 2: in spirit, though, and most of our other station folks
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  Speaker 2: are going to be here. Always a great time when
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  Speaker 2: we do October West.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely. This is our 18th year for October West. Hard
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  Speaker 6: to believe. 18 years in COVID insurance, sticking with us
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  Speaker 6: as our title sponsor for several years. Um, and you know,
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  Speaker 6: this is really a celebration of everything, the best that
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  Speaker 6: the West side in Charleston has to offer, right? This
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  Speaker 6: really is an encapsulation of, um, what a celebration really
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  Speaker 6: should feel like when you're in Charleston, not just because
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  Speaker 6: of the, you know, a hundred different beers that are
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  Speaker 6: on tap that you can sample beer ciders and, and, uh, and,
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  Speaker 6: and seltzers, but not just because of the live entertainment,
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  Speaker 6: the two live bands and DJ EJ spending the entire time,
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  Speaker 6: not just because of the October West games, of course,
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  Speaker 6: that are back again. for I believe the 15th year
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  Speaker 6: of the event, but mostly to celebrate the businesses that
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  Speaker 6: make the Westside what it is and the culture and
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  Speaker 6: the community that exists over on Charleston's Westside. And as
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  Speaker 6: an organization, we're so proud to have been producing and
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  Speaker 6: hosting this event for that long, for that reason alone.
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  Speaker 6: This is our job is to shine a spotlight on
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  Speaker 6: all these wonderful businesses that have made the decision to
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  Speaker 6: make their investments on Charleston's Westside property owners, business owners,
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  Speaker 6: and to wrap everything up for the year with this
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  Speaker 6: big celebration. So, you know, we're once again just really
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  Speaker 6: excited about it.
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  Speaker 2: It's always a great event. And it's, you know, kind
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  Speaker 2: of that kickoff to the fall season. And having done
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  Speaker 2: this event, Rick, for several years, you never know what
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  Speaker 2: the weather is going to be. I don't think, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: in the times that I've been doing, it's never been really,
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  Speaker 2: really bad, but we've never really had that cold either,
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  Speaker 2: and we're not going to have it this weekend.
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  Speaker 6: No, I mean, it's really kind of a perfect time
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  Speaker 6: of year to put the event on, which is what
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  Speaker 6: we've done with Fun with the Dome as well, right?
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  Speaker 6: It's typically the beginning of May, not too hot, not
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  Speaker 6: too cold. Um, and it's sort of the same thing here.
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  Speaker 6: Time change hasn't happened yet. We're, I think we're a
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  Speaker 6: week or so behind the time or about a month
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  Speaker 6: behind the time change of this Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: WVU and Marshall both with road games.
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  Speaker 6: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: Away games.
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  Speaker 6: That was strategically planned to have this event on the
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  Speaker 6: third cause they're both away games. Um, but, uh, you know, and,
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  Speaker 6: but other organizations have caught onto that. We have so
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  Speaker 6: many other, uh, great events happening, uh, this weekend and, and, and, and, uh,
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  Speaker 6: surrounding weekends, uh, in October and September. And, you know,
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  Speaker 6: there's just so much to do in Charleston. So, and
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  Speaker 6: having said that, you know, we are going to be
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  Speaker 6: working directly with Mountaineer Night Out, which is happening starting
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  Speaker 6: at noon at the red carpet. And of course, City
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  Speaker 6: Center Deb, which is a part of FestiFall, that happens
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  Speaker 6: at seven o'clock on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: We're working with.
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  Speaker 6: KRT to have a bus loop, a trolley loop running.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, I was thinking about that. You're perfect in your
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  Speaker 2: timing of this.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Because the Mountaineer's Night Out is going to be At
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  Speaker 2: the red carpet. And they're going to start at 10
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  Speaker 2: in the morning because kickoff for WVU and Iowa State
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  Speaker 2: is at noon.
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  Speaker 9: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So you're going to be kind of sandwiched in the
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  Speaker 2: middle there. And then all the things I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about festival coming up a little bit later on
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  Speaker 2: the show, but all those things that are going on.
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  Speaker 2: And again, we got city center with a city center
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  Speaker 2: data that you're calling it, that you mentioned it. With
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  Speaker 2: the tribute to the Grateful Dead. So you can take, actually,
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  Speaker 2: you can take in all three events.
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  Speaker 8: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: So talk about that tie-in with KRT.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, we're forming this partnership with KRT. We'll have more
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  Speaker 6: information on our social media page today and tomorrow about it.
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  Speaker 6: But we'll have a trolley running between the three events.
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  Speaker 6: The times are still yet to be determined. So give
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  Speaker 6: us a few. This is sort of the thing we
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  Speaker 6: realized we had to wait till they announced the time
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  Speaker 6: of the game to figure this out fully. And so
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  Speaker 6: we're working really hard to get the final details solidified.
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  Speaker 6: But there will be a trolley running between the three
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  Speaker 6: events at certain times. So it does give people access
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  Speaker 6: to safely hit all three if they want. And nobody
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  Speaker 6: will have an excuse not to come and support all
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  Speaker 6: the great things happening on the West Side with October West.
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  Speaker 2: Take us through. You mentioned a couple of the things
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  Speaker 2: that happened at October West. But for people that have
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  Speaker 2: never been, you mentioned the music. You got all the
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  Speaker 2: October games and the food and everything and the beers.
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  Speaker 2: Take us through every single part of it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you walk in. The admission gate will be on
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  Speaker 6: Tennessee Avenue. So if you walk into Tennessee Avenue, you
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  Speaker 6: can get registered if you already bought your ticket. If
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  Speaker 6: you go to charlestonurbanworks.org, you can buy your ticket now,
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  Speaker 6: of course.
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  Speaker 2: Come in.
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  Speaker 6: We scan your ticket. You get your wristband. You get
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  Speaker 6: your commemorative October West Cup. And you gain admission. You
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  Speaker 6: walk in. We'll have beer vendors and food vendors lining
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  Speaker 6: the streets all through Washington Street West and Tennessee Avenue.
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  Speaker 6: The stage will be on Washington Street West as well.
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  Speaker 6: You take your cup to any of the booths, get
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  Speaker 6: your sample, your beer sample. We do, like I said,
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  Speaker 6: we have about 100 ciders, beers, and seltzers on tap.
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  Speaker 6: And then we have, I believe this year, 13 different
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  Speaker 6: food vendors, which is maybe a record with the number
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  Speaker 6: of food vendors we've had for this event so far. And,
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  Speaker 6: of course, that's separate costs, of course. You'll be paying
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  Speaker 6: them directly. But pretty much food for any pallet. So
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  Speaker 6: that happens throughout the duration of the event. If you
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  Speaker 6: come at 3 o'clock, that's VIP hour. So if you
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  Speaker 6: want your VIP ticket, just go on to the site,
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  Speaker 6: select VIP. It's $ 55 for VIP, $ 45 for general admission,
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  Speaker 6: which starts at 4 o'clock. Event runs till 8 o'clock.
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  Speaker 6: Live music will start at 4 o'clock on the City
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  Speaker 6: National Bank stage. We have the Holler Generals and the
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  Speaker 6: Alan Smith Band both performing live. throughout the evening, DJ
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  Speaker 6: EJ will be spinning right around where the October West
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  Speaker 6: games are going to be, which is right by the
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  Speaker 6: old fountain hobby center in that grass lot. Those games
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  Speaker 6: start at, I think, five 30. If you registered, if
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  Speaker 6: you bought a ticket to October West, you can register
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  Speaker 6: to play in the October game, October West games. So
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  Speaker 6: we're going to have best dress contest. We're going to
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  Speaker 6: have sausage toss contest, the keg rolling contest, Steinholding, which
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  Speaker 6: I believe is the most popular. The Steinholding context.
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  Speaker 2: Explain that because you talked about a couple of weeks ago,
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  Speaker 2: but people, it's literally what the name implies.
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  Speaker 6: You literally, we, we supply these enormous glass Steins. We
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  Speaker 6: fill them with beer. Uh, we have a very long
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  Speaker 6: table set up in the grass lot and people are
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  Speaker 6: standing on both sides of it. They extend their arms
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  Speaker 6: out with the Stein and the last person standing wins
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  Speaker 6: the competition. And it looks a lot easier than it
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  Speaker 6: really is. I'll say that it is not.
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  Speaker 2: Actually get those from Steve animal. Those are his personal,
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  Speaker 2: those are his shot glasses.
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  Speaker 6: We go, we go, down to his cellar and pick
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  Speaker 6: out the best ones and bring them to the event.
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  Speaker 6: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: And all of our stations are going to be there
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  Speaker 2: as we always are. And we love the partnership that
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  Speaker 2: we have with Charleston Urban Works for this and Foam
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  Speaker 2: at the Dome and all the other things you do.
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  Speaker 2: And we appreciate you working with us. We had a text.
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  Speaker 2: Is it a family-friendly event? Is it okay for kids?
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  Speaker 6: You know, kids are welcome to come. We don't really
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  Speaker 6: have a lot for kids to do. We've definitely had
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  Speaker 6: some folks bring their kids along. You know, usually... Smaller kids,
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  Speaker 6: we don't really have anything for that middle-aged kid gap,
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  Speaker 6: if you will. It is a 21 and over event
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  Speaker 6: if you actually want to enjoy it, obviously, by law.
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  Speaker 2: But they can come.
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  Speaker 6: But they can absolutely come and they can hang out
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  Speaker 6: with their parents, no problem at all. And we won't
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  Speaker 6: charge a ticket price for a kid. We have a
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  Speaker 6: red wristband, of course, for designated drivers. And we sort
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  Speaker 6: of treat that the same for anybody else who's not
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  Speaker 6: going to be drinking at the event or can't drink.
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  Speaker 2: This is something I think is great that you guys
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  Speaker 2: do for this and Phone With The Dump. And that
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  Speaker 2: is the designated driver wristband.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, at no cost at all. And you can actually
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  Speaker 6: go on and buy your designated driver ticket at no cost.
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  Speaker 6: You can just add it to your cart. If you're
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  Speaker 6: planning on coming as a group and you've assigned someone
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  Speaker 6: as your designated driver, when you get there, you scan
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  Speaker 6: your ticket in, it'll show up as designated driver. We'll
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  Speaker 6: give you a red wristband. And our volunteers who are
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  Speaker 6: pouring know that if you have that wristband on, you
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  Speaker 6: do not get access to any of the beer. And
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  Speaker 6: of course, you still have access to all the food vendors.
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  Speaker 6: The entertainment, you can even participate in the October West games.
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  Speaker 6: But you would obviously not have access to the beer.
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  Speaker 2: Now, of course, this is sponsored by Charleston Urban Works.
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  Speaker 2: You're the executive director. Explain Charleston Urban Works for people
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  Speaker 2: who may not know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So what I always say when it comes to these events,
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  Speaker 6: you know, we're not an event organization. We don't exist
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  Speaker 6: to put on events. We are a nonprofit urban economic
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  Speaker 6: community development organization who just so happens to put on
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  Speaker 6: events as a couple times a year as fundraisers for
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  Speaker 6: the work that we do.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 6: So, you know, when you buy your ticket to this event,
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  Speaker 6: you're not only signing up to have a great time
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  Speaker 6: and to celebrate community. but you're also investing in the
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  Speaker 6: implementation of really important programming that we work on throughout
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  Speaker 6: the year. So whether that's our facade activation grant program,
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  Speaker 6: we offer matching funds to any of our district business
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  Speaker 6: or property owners who are looking to enhance their properties,
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  Speaker 6: whether that's new brick pointing, doors, windows, signage, et cetera, paint,
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  Speaker 6: our Westside Gateway Lighting Initiative, which as I'm sure you've
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  Speaker 6: seen is happening right now, the new lampposts are live
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  Speaker 6: going in the street now. That's a project we've been
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  Speaker 6: working on for about eight years. Our crosswalk enhancement projects,
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  Speaker 6: our public space enhancement projects, public art, business advancement projects
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  Speaker 6: that we've worked on, shop local initiatives, events like this
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  Speaker 6: help us raise the money to have the staff to
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  Speaker 6: implement those programs. So, you know, the work we do,
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  Speaker 6: of course, as you can imagine, I'm going to say
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  Speaker 6: it's super important. I think a lot of people would
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  Speaker 6: agree it's very important, the work that we do. We're
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  Speaker 6: really proud of what we do. And we're proud of
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  Speaker 6: the number of people that come out to this event
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  Speaker 6: to celebrate the West Side.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it is kind of– I said the West End,
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  Speaker 2: and somebody– You've already gotten– They said the West End.
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  Speaker 2: Where is that? Is that what Taze Valley people call
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  Speaker 2: the West Side of Charleston? I'm sorry. I said West End.
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  Speaker 6: I wasn't going to say anything, Dave. I know your heart.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Give us the website and give us all the info,
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  Speaker 2: the time, starting time, so on and so forth again.
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  Speaker 6: CharlestonUrbanWorks.org. You just go to the main site, click the
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  Speaker 6: October West link. It'll take you to your ticketing page.
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  Speaker 6: You can buy your tickets today. Tickets are the same
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  Speaker 6: price at the gate, but we can't always guarantee that
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  Speaker 6: there will be any left. There is a sellout threshold.
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  Speaker 6: We came really close last year to selling out, so
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  Speaker 6: definitely want to get your tickets ahead of time. Gates
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  Speaker 6: will open a little bit before 3 o'clock for VIP
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  Speaker 6: and then a little bit before 4 o'clock for general
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  Speaker 6: admission tickets.
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  Speaker 2: We had a text that said, is the far west
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  Speaker 2: side upper Washington Street ready for the revival now that
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  Speaker 2: Route 60 got repaid?
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  Speaker 6: Listen, it's looking good. All of Washington Street West is
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  Speaker 6: looking great. I'm so glad. I live right there on
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  Speaker 6: the west side and i um it's so great to
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  Speaker 6: see uh that happening and we're you know we are
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  Speaker 6: actively right now working on a long-term plan for the
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  Speaker 6: far west side and we're not ready to share all
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  Speaker 6: the details yet because we have a lot of meetings
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  Speaker 6: to to be had i'll have you back when you're
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  Speaker 6: ready that's right so work will be happening.
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  Speaker 2: All right keep an eye on my folks over there
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  Speaker 2: i won't be there i won't be there to keep
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  Speaker 2: an eye on them but uh you know Every now
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  Speaker 2: and then, you've got to have a couple days off.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I can tell you in years past, I
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  Speaker 2: have not always driven the station vehicles over there. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: I have just met people over there. Never had a
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  Speaker 2: problem with parking. Really, under the bridge is the best
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  Speaker 2: Never had an issue with parking going over there. If
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  Speaker 2: you want to turn your radio on yesterday... You heard
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: a familiar voice on our sister station, Superstar Country 96.1 KWS.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: It's Billy Brown. And after a few years away, he's back,
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: and he's with me this morning in the JR Construction Studios.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, sir.
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  Speaker 14: Yee-haw!
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: He's back. Good morning. Did the coffee just kick in? Man, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's National Coffee Day, by the way.
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: I know. And guess what?
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 2: I'm in the 29 to 32 percent. I don't drink coffee.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: How do you do mornings and not drink coffee? I
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 18:22
  Speaker 9: Well, it's a long story, but it has to do
• 18:24
  Speaker 9: with I gave up caffeine 20 years ago.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 18:27
  Speaker 9: And I had an engineer at a radio station in Nashville.
• 18:31
  Speaker 9: He had given up caffeine, and I asked him, what happens?
• 18:34
  Speaker 9: How do you kick the caffeine habit? And he explained
• 18:38
  Speaker 9: to me, he was like, let's say since this is radio,
• 18:42
  Speaker 9: am I on TV?
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: No.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: I'm not on? No, it's just radio. I'll come back
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: when we're on TV.
• 18:47
  Speaker 11: Okay.
• 18:49
  Speaker 9: Say you put your hand four feet off the ground.
• 18:51
  Speaker 9: This is like maybe shoulder height here. And he said,
• 18:54
  Speaker 9: that's where your levels normally are. And then if you
• 18:57
  Speaker 9: drink caffeine, your levels, now my other hand is about
• 19:00
  Speaker 9: five feet off the ground. And then when the caffeine
• 19:03
  Speaker 9: wears off, that hand, it goes down to about three feet.
• 19:07
  Speaker 9: So you're going up and down with the caffeine. You
• 19:10
  Speaker 9: need to get another boost of caffeine. And I hear
• 19:13
  Speaker 9: that that happens the same with nicotine as well. So
• 19:17
  Speaker 9: he says- He was telling me, you kick that caffeine,
• 19:21
  Speaker 9: just stop it. And the first three or four days,
• 19:25
  Speaker 9: you're going to have migraines. And he was right. But
• 19:28
  Speaker 9: once you get through the migraines, now your level is
• 19:31
  Speaker 9: right there, steady at the four foot level that we
• 19:35
  Speaker 9: started off with. You know, you don't go up to
• 19:38
  Speaker 9: the five foot level or down to, you're not up,
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: you're not down. And you feel like you got energy
• 19:43
  Speaker 9: all the time because you're never in that down okay
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: time interesting yeah all right all right so you know
• 19:50
  Speaker 9: you weren't here for hey thanks for having me oh
• 19:52
  Speaker 9: oh no you're not done yet oh trust me you're
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: not done yet of course you weren't here a few
• 19:56
  Speaker 9: years ago went away for a while but now you're
• 19:58
  Speaker 9: back it happens yeah business but i want to let
• 20:00
  Speaker 9: people get to know you give us your bio i
• 20:02
  Speaker 9: know you're a west virginia guy but you've literally been
• 20:05
  Speaker 9: all over the country so give us the billy brown
• 20:07
  Speaker 9: bio i was born a Poor black child.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Was that the jerk? The jerk. The jerk.
• 20:14
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: I'm from Wheeling.
• 20:16
  Speaker 9: Grew up in Wheeling my first 20 years. Then I
• 20:20
  Speaker 9: moved to Maryland. I was in radio. Started out in radio.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: What was it that made you get into radio? Let's
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: start there. I want to know the story.
• 20:29
  Speaker 9: Oh, my goodness. I was a sophomore in high school.
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: It was May of 1980. So that's 46 years now.
• 20:37
  Speaker 9: And a guy that was a junior, we had a
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: history class together. And we were playing football just on
• 20:46
  Speaker 9: the weekend. It was just like a weekend thing. A
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: bunch of people in the neighborhood. And he said he
• 20:51
  Speaker 9: had to go.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: I'm like, where are you going?
• 20:53
  Speaker 9: He said, I got to go to work. And I
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: asked him where he worked. And he said at this
• 20:58
  Speaker 9: radio station in downtown Wheeling, 1400 AM. And I said,
• 21:04
  Speaker 9: can I tag along?
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: He said, yeah.
• 21:07
  Speaker 9: So I went down to the radio station. I was
• 21:09
  Speaker 9: a DJ at the roller rink on Wheeling Island, which
• 21:12
  Speaker 9: is no longer there. And I also DJed around town
• 21:18
  Speaker 9: and stuff. So I get down to the radio station
• 21:21
  Speaker 9: with him. This guy's a junior in high school. This
• 21:26
  Speaker 9: was a weekend shift that he was doing, but he
• 21:28
  Speaker 9: was the full-time 7 to midnight DJ on the radio
• 21:34
  Speaker 9: in Wheeling as a junior in high school. And his
• 21:37
  Speaker 9: name was Fred Del Fiat. Everybody called him Sonny. His
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: middle name's Andre. So his whole life, his whole career
• 21:43
  Speaker 9: has been Sonny Andre.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: And he's been in Dallas, Texas.
• 21:47
  Speaker 9: There's been a bunch of people from Wheeling. Dave Smith
• 21:49
  Speaker 9: went out to Columbus, Ohio. And John Klein was the
• 21:53
  Speaker 9: morning guy in Pittsburgh for two decades. But Sonny told me,
• 21:59
  Speaker 9: I was just standing in the hallway looking through the
• 22:01
  Speaker 9: glass and he's talking on the radio and the speakers
• 22:04
  Speaker 9: are in the ceiling and i'm like this is so
• 22:06
  Speaker 9: cool the bug bit me yeah and i said sonny
• 22:09
  Speaker 9: this is what i want to do he said you
• 22:11
  Speaker 9: can't do it i said what do you mean i
• 22:13
  Speaker 9: can't do it you're doing it yeah but you can't
• 22:15
  Speaker 9: do it that was the wrong thing to say but
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: he said you can't even say the call letters because
• 22:21
  Speaker 9: back then you know it's just like uh that private
• 22:24
  Speaker 9: parts movie wnbc you know what you know uh you
• 22:28
  Speaker 9: had to say the w yeah get that l in
• 22:31
  Speaker 9: there like Like the word milk.
• 22:34
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: You couldn't just say W.
• 22:36
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: It had to be W. W. And a lot of
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: radio stations used to even put it on a big
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: piece of paper. D-O-U-B-L-E dash U. W. W. W.
• 22:47
  Speaker 9: And the afternoon guy, my friend Sonny, who graduated a
• 22:51
  Speaker 9: year ahead of me, he's the 7 to midnight guy.
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: The full-time afternoon guy was always saying W. 14 W
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: to K, W to K. And I'm like, oh, he can, he,
• 23:01
  Speaker 9: you can pay him to be a full-timer saying W, W, W, W,
• 23:04
  Speaker 9: but I got to say W.
• 23:06
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: And I said, ah, it's no problem. He put me
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: in a studio back in the day. We didn't have
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: this digital stuff. Big reel to reels.
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 23:15
  Speaker 9: You got this reel to reel tape going and I'm
• 23:17
  Speaker 9: reading all this stuff and I'm practicing the call letters.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Played it back. He was right.
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: I stunk.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: I was horrible. But then I wanted to get it.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: So when the bug bites you, it's in you. It
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: got me in a similar way. And I've told this
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: story before. I've always been around. Radio was always on
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: in our house growing up, always. And I can remember
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: going with my grandparents to Beckley. And we were there
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: shopping or something. And we stopped in this hardware store.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: And somebody, it may have been Fred Persinger. He doesn't
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: remember it. I don't know. But the local guy was
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: doing a live broadcast there and it was the culmination
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: of a contest. And it was like, you had to
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: be present to win. There's like a hundred people in
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: this store and he gets ready to drop the winner
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: and he sends it back to the station for like
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: one more song before they, and I said, that's what
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: I want to do right there. And I was obsessed
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: with it. And I'm like you, I was a sophomore
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: in high school. when I started at the high school
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: radio station, then I was a senior in high school
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: when I actually started doing it professionally. What is it
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: about this business though? And just off the top of
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: your head, where all have you worked? I mean, we
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: know Charleston. Oh my goodness. Give us the cities.
• 24:28
  Speaker 15: Okay.
• 24:28
  Speaker 9: I left Wheeling and I went to Frederick, Maryland, about
• 24:33
  Speaker 9: an hour west of Baltimore, hour northwest of DC. I
• 24:38
  Speaker 9: was working midnight to six in Frederick. A year later,
• 24:41
  Speaker 9: I was seven to midnight. I got promoted up to
• 24:44
  Speaker 9: 7 to midnight. A year later, I was 3 to
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: 7 in the afternoon. I was assistant program director, and
• 24:49
  Speaker 9: I was the music director. But I got a part-time job.
• 24:52
  Speaker 9: I applied for part-time work in the big city, Washington, D.C.,
• 24:56
  Speaker 9: and Baltimore. I applied at the same time, and it
• 25:00
  Speaker 9: turns out that I got hired by both two different
• 25:06
  Speaker 9: radio stations, a radio station in D.C. and a radio
• 25:08
  Speaker 9: station in Baltimore. So at one time, I was working
• 25:11
  Speaker 9: all three radio stations, And I was driving a triangle
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: from Frederick down to DC, up I-95 to Baltimore, back
• 25:19
  Speaker 9: to DC. Well, I guess I didn't really do the
• 25:21
  Speaker 9: triangle because I went back to DC before I came
• 25:23
  Speaker 9: back to Frederick, Maryland. And we didn't have any way
• 25:28
  Speaker 9: of recording.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Shows back then. No, everything was live, yeah.
• 25:30
  Speaker 9: It was live, and I was putting in a lot
• 25:32
  Speaker 9: of miles. I did that for almost a year. And
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: then I got a job down in Atlanta, Georgia. From Atlanta,
• 25:39
  Speaker 9: I went to Nashville. A couple of years later, I
• 25:41
  Speaker 9: was in Pittsburgh. Uh, I'd met, I'd met, I was
• 25:46
  Speaker 9: married back in the day and the lady I married
• 25:50
  Speaker 9: and mother of my kids was from, I met her
• 25:52
  Speaker 9: in Atlanta. We moved to Nashville while she was pregnant
• 25:57
  Speaker 9: with our first child in her eighth month. I moved
• 26:00
  Speaker 9: to Pittsburgh. She goes to Pittsburgh, has the baby, our, our,
• 26:06
  Speaker 9: our oldest daughter, Samantha, who's getting married in a couple
• 26:09
  Speaker 9: of weeks.
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Uh, I knew she wasn't a Pittsburghian.
• 26:16
  Speaker 9: A yinzer.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: So there was a job.
• 26:21
  Speaker 9: Opening back in Atlanta where I met her. So we
• 26:25
  Speaker 9: went back to Atlanta like 10 months after I was
• 26:27
  Speaker 9: in Pittsburgh. They were not too happy with me, but
• 26:29
  Speaker 9: I went back to Atlanta. And from there, I went
• 26:33
  Speaker 9: back to Nashville. So I've been in Atlanta twice, Nashville twice.
• 26:39
  Speaker 9: I left Nashville to go to Yakima, Washington, two hours
• 26:44
  Speaker 9: southeast of Seattle. I was programming a radio station and
• 26:50
  Speaker 9: hosting a three-person morning show when a guy I worked
• 26:54
  Speaker 9: with in Nashville ended up in New Orleans, and they
• 26:59
  Speaker 9: needed a guy to host their three-person morning show. They
• 27:04
  Speaker 9: called me, asked me to record the show, sent them
• 27:08
  Speaker 9: a copy of, one hour of the show. And, um,
• 27:13
  Speaker 9: the guy's name was John Roberts. He called me and
• 27:15
  Speaker 9: he said, the three of you up in little Yakima,
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: Washington are better than any morning show in new Orleans,
• 27:21
  Speaker 9: but he only wanted one person. He didn't want to
• 27:24
  Speaker 9: hire the show. So I went to new Orleans for
• 27:26
  Speaker 9: a couple of years. Then I ended up in Miami for, um,
• 27:31
  Speaker 9: I think four years. at a big country station. First
• 27:36
  Speaker 9: time I ever did country radio, Miami, Florida.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Because when you think country music, you think Miami.
• 27:43
  Speaker 9: Well, you know, the thing is, my kids were just
• 27:46
  Speaker 9: growing up, and we would take them on horseback riding.
• 27:51
  Speaker 9: And the guide, we were in the Fort Lauderdale area.
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: I worked in Miami, but we were living in the
• 27:57
  Speaker 9: Fort Lauderdale area. And the guy who was the guide
• 28:01
  Speaker 9: on the horse ride was from South America and Brazil.
• 28:06
  Speaker 9: And everybody, he would say, yeah, they think that all
• 28:09
  Speaker 9: I want to listen to is Spanish music.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: But he said, we're cowboys. We are cowboys in Brazil.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: So they loved country music. So you're in Miami, okay, so...
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: How do you end up back in West Virginia? Did
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: you have it on your radar to come back to
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: West Virginia? No, no, no. I was thinking because a
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: lot of people say, well, I'm going to get back
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: to West Virginia or whatever their home state is as
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: soon as I can.
• 28:35
  Speaker 9: That wasn't part of your plan? No, I got arrested
• 28:38
  Speaker 9: and they made me. Well, from Miami, I actually went
• 28:44
  Speaker 9: to Orlando. And from Orlando, I went to Tampa. And
• 28:50
  Speaker 9: I wanted to get back into programming.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 28:53
  Speaker 9: And a guy that I worked with in Yakima, Washington,
• 28:56
  Speaker 9: I mean, way back, calls me up, asked me to
• 29:00
  Speaker 9: come out to Boise, Idaho. So I went out to Boise,
• 29:04
  Speaker 9: Idaho to program. I did that for two and a
• 29:07
  Speaker 9: half years. You would love Idaho. It's just like West Virginia.
• 29:12
  Speaker 9: Their hills are a little bit higher. But with a
• 29:14
  Speaker 9: lot of potatoes.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: You know, most of those big, good Idaho potatoes get
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: shipped out. That's probably true. You get better Idaho potatoes
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: if you're not in Idaho. Makes sense.
• 29:24
  Speaker 9: But I lived a couple of blocks from Boise State,
• 29:29
  Speaker 9: the Broncos, and I thought that blue field was something new. Well,
• 29:34
  Speaker 9: they did that back in 1986, I found out. I
• 29:37
  Speaker 9: didn't know because we didn't watch, you know. back in
• 29:40
  Speaker 9: the 80s, early 90s, I don't think we were able
• 29:43
  Speaker 9: to watch.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: No, no, probably not. Boise, Idaho football.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: But now they're all over the place now. So I
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: loved it. You'd love Idaho. If you love West Virginia,
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: you'd love Idaho.
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: But after two and a half years, and I was single.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: And I just got to thinking, I got to go back.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: I got to go home.
• 30:06
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 30:06
  Speaker 9: And out of all the places, yeah, I loved Atlanta.
• 30:09
  Speaker 9: I loved Miami. I loved Orlando. I loved Nashville, too.
• 30:15
  Speaker 9: But this is West Virginia. It's where I grew up. And,
• 30:19
  Speaker 9: of course, I grew up in the northern panhandle. And
• 30:23
  Speaker 9: this was a little bit different. Yeah.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: The two good things I can say, and it's not
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: going to sound good, but... But don't get fired on
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: your second day. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: This is sentimental. Sentimental.
• 30:36
  Speaker 9: I got to spend... I didn't know where I was
• 30:38
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  Speaker 2: We're talking to Billy Brown. Away from the microphone, Billy.
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  Speaker 2: one of our sister stations. Away from the microphone, what
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  Speaker 2: keeps you busy? Well, you know what I'm talking about there,
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  Speaker 2: Boo Meyer. You just go out there and get her done.
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  Speaker 2: What keeps me busy? Yeah, away from the microphone. Hobbies
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: and whatnot. Bowling and golf.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 35:33
  Speaker 9: And I'm still trying to perfect both of them, and
• 35:36
  Speaker 9: I'm not close to doing that.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Well, but you're having fun while you're doing it.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Give us one really, really funny story from the business,
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: one or two of the funniest stories, and then we're
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: going to do 10 questions and get you back to work.
• 35:48
  Speaker 11: Wow.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: One or two.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, off the top of your head, funny story,
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: funny story. So funny, funny, unique, anything that if people
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: ask you, you know, like I'm asking you now, like what,
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: what's something you were in this city and this happened,
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: you were in, I mean, everybody's got one or two.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Give me one. One time. I don't know.
• 36:07
  Speaker 9: I know that I was in Nashville and I wasn't
• 36:09
  Speaker 9: working for a country radio station and Aerosmith was coming
• 36:14
  Speaker 9: to town and the lady called I guess this was
• 36:18
  Speaker 9: Steven Tyler. I guess it was Aerosmith's manager or something.
• 36:21
  Speaker 9: She calls me and she says, who do you want
• 36:25
  Speaker 9: to interview? Because the show's coming up Wednesday night.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Who do you want to interview?
• 36:30
  Speaker 9: And I said, well, who can I interview? Who may I?
• 36:35
  Speaker 9: She said, anybody in the band. All I could think
• 36:37
  Speaker 9: of was Steven Tyler and Joe Perry. And I said, well,
• 36:44
  Speaker 9: can I talk with Steven Tyler? And she says, yes,
• 36:47
  Speaker 9: he'll call you tomorrow. This was on a Monday. The
• 36:50
  Speaker 9: concert's on Wednesday. He'll call you tomorrow at one o'clock.
• 36:54
  Speaker 9: You call him Steven. Not Steve, not Stevie, not Steve-o.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: Steven.
• 37:00
  Speaker 9: And it never even dawned on me because we've all
• 37:01
  Speaker 9: said Steven Tyler so much in our lives.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: It didn't even dawn on me to call him Steve
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: or Stevie or Steve-o. Okay, so yeah.
• 37:10
  Speaker 9: Then he calls up. We're talking, had a great conversation.
• 37:14
  Speaker 9: At the end of the conversation, this is back in
• 37:16
  Speaker 9: the day with the recording tape instead of digital. And
• 37:19
  Speaker 9: I asked him if he, you know, we're all done.
• 37:22
  Speaker 9: I'm going to edit the interview and I'll play it later.
• 37:25
  Speaker 9: And the tape's still rolling. And I asked him, I said,
• 37:27
  Speaker 9: can you say, hey, this is Steven Tyler and you're
• 37:30
  Speaker 9: listening to Y107. And he's like, yeah, you rolling? I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 9: we're rolling.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: He goes, all right. And he starts singing. Hey, this
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  Speaker 2: is Steven Tyler.
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  Speaker 11: Why?
• 37:44
  Speaker 9: Because we love you, 107. Ticked the rock station off.
• 37:50
  Speaker 9: When we got out to the concert the next night,
• 37:53
  Speaker 9: they were just livid. And I'm thinking, this is a
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  Speaker 9: different company. I don't know who these people are. And
• 38:02
  Speaker 9: I'm sure they had the same choice.
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  Speaker 2: That I had.
• 38:05
  Speaker 9: Whom would you like to speak with? Well, I was
• 38:10
  Speaker 9: working three to seven in the afternoon. The meet and
• 38:13
  Speaker 9: greet before the show was at seven o'clock. I get
• 38:16
  Speaker 9: out there about seven 30 and it's an outdoor venue.
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  Speaker 9: The promotions guy, young guy in his twenties or maybe
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  Speaker 9: 19 at the time, he, I had tickets to get there,
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  Speaker 9: but I didn't have any passes to get to the
• 38:29
  Speaker 9: backstage and the meet and greet and the picnic and
• 38:32
  Speaker 9: all that stuff. And this guy, Mike, we called him Mikey.
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  Speaker 9: Mikey comes, he's like, and I was with my wife
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  Speaker 9: at the time. He's like, man, get back.
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  Speaker 1: Come on.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: You got to come now because Steven's been looking for you.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, right. I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 9: We walked back there and Steven Tyler stood there and
• 38:50
  Speaker 9: spoke with my wife, Pam, at the time and me
• 38:55
  Speaker 9: for over 20 minutes like we went to school together.
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  Speaker 7: Really?
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: That's how nice he is. Okay.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All right. So that's, all right. But not everybody's got
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: that story for sure. I don't have one like that.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: All I got is, you know, Steve Animal. It's the
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: only Steve I have. Can we get a lock on
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: that door?
• 39:10
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Even though you're not a new employee anymore, I'm going
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: to give you the new employee treatment, Billy. You have
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  Speaker 2: rejoined the family here at the Radio Ranch. You were
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: actually working here when I joined the company six years ago.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: So you and I get to do a little 10 questions.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: I do this with all the new on-air staff members.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: I'm holding in my hand 10 totally at random questions.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Please verify, Billy, you have not seen the questions. No,
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: I haven't. I didn't even know the last one you
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: asked me. I'm going to ask you 10 questions. I'd
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: appreciate you answering them as quickly as possible in a
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: rapid-fire style. The questions were formulated in a hidden laboratory
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: somewhere near Kenna. And to our listeners at home, as always,
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: do not try this at home. And as always... No wagering.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Billy Brown, are you ready? Yes. Question one. That's one
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: question right there. No, that's the same. Question one. Anyone
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: who knows you knows you're a hardcore Steelers fan. All-time
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: favorite Steeler.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Oh, my.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: How can you have one? I would have to say.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: Apparently he didn't catch the assignment about the rapid fire,
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: but go ahead.
• 40:15
  Speaker 8: Oh.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Rocky Blyer.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: In a movie about your life, who would play Billy Brown?
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: I would.
• 40:24
  Speaker 12: Okay.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: That's a new one.
• 40:26
  Speaker 12: No, really?
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: What if you're dead? Who's going to play you? Oh,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: who would play me?
• 40:30
  Speaker 10: Oh, I.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: Mean, who could play me? That's the question. I mean,
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: who's going to play me? Who could play me? Probably. Oh, man.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: All these names are coming up in my head, and
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: they're dead. Yeah, we'll get back to that. All right.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: The name of your favorite pet as a kid? Casey. Summer, winter, spring,
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: or fall?
• 41:01
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: The one food you absolutely will not eat no matter what?
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: I got a whole list. Okay, give me one. Give
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: me one, Billy. Lima beans.
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: The one talent you have away from radio that people
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: would be surprised to know you have? Don't get me fired, Billy. Oh, man.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: I did that when I was at Marshall. I play
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: guitar and write and write songs. Okay, there you go.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Ginger or Mary Ann? Mary Ann. Best friend, first name only,
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: from your childhood?
• 41:49
  Speaker 12: Robert.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: You're driving across country and can only listen to one artist,
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: and it cannot be a country artist. Who would it be?
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: Katy Perry. And finally, what color of clothing do you
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: have the most of in your closet?
• 42:02
  Speaker 7: Blue.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: All right. Back to the other one. In a movie
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: about your life, who would play Billy Brown?
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 42:10
  Speaker 9: I'm trying to think of somebody that is not real
• 42:15
  Speaker 9: tall and not real short.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: But still ruggedly good-looking.
• 42:18
  Speaker 11: 5'8.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Handsome, dashing, modest. It would have to be Keith Urban.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: Keith Urban. All right. I don't know. Yeah, that's what
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: I was thinking. Throw the Australian in there. Billy Brown, congratulations.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: You've completed 10 questions. Welcome back to the team. You
• 42:39
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  Speaker 2: at one of our sister stations here in the building. SuperstarCountry961KWS. Man,
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: I appreciate you being here. Welcome back, buddy. Thanks for
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: having me, mate. All right. That's the longest 10 questions
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: I think we have ever had.
• 42:53
  Speaker 12: I'm sorry.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: Why don't you give these to the people the day
• 42:56
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• 42:58
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  Speaker 2: That's the longest 10 questions I think I've ever, I've
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  Speaker 12: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people reach out to me about this
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  Speaker 2: lady who was on Wheel of Fortune last night. Now,
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  Speaker 2: she did pretty well for herself, won a lot of
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  Speaker 2: money and a trip to Thailand. Her name is Autumn Martin,
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  Speaker 2: and she's in the Kanawha Valley area now, but she
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  Speaker 2: is originally from Logan. And what I'm going to say
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  Speaker 2: is probably going to shock you. I don't know her.
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  Speaker 2: Believe it or not, not everyone from Logan knows everybody else.
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  Speaker 2: We kind of know, apparently, about a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: same people because I had a good friend of mine
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  Speaker 2: who texted me and said, hey, you've got to have
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  Speaker 2: Autumn on the air to talk about her experience at
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  Speaker 2: Wheel of Fortune. She said she did pretty well for
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  Speaker 2: herself last night. I did not know her. I reached
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  Speaker 2: out to her. You know, that totally destroys that rumor
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  Speaker 2: that everybody in a small town knows each other because
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: we knew a lot of the same people, but I
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: reached out to her. And just as I was getting
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  Speaker 2: ready to go on the air today, I heard back
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  Speaker 2: from her and said that all media inquiries have to
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  Speaker 2: go through Sony Pictures Television. So that's not her fault.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's just the way it happens because any
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  Speaker 2: time I remember when we went through all this with Landau,
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: When you want America's Got Talent, you can't just when
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  Speaker 2: people have been on shows like that, there's a little
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: there's a little, you know, kind of a gap there.
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  Speaker 2: You can't just go on and interview them. You got
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  Speaker 2: to go through the proper channels. So I when I
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  Speaker 2: get off the air, we put it on an email
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  Speaker 2: to Hollywood to see if we can get Autumn on
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  Speaker 2: the show sometime over the next couple of days. Speaking
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: of the next couple of days, I will not be
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: here on the show Thursday or Friday. Just letting you
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: know now. taking a quick vacation, just my wife and
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: I heading out of town for a couple days. I will,
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: tomorrow I'll be on the show and on midday, not
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  Speaker 2: on either show Thursday, not on either show Friday. Dale
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  Speaker 2: Cooper will be filling in for me. I will be
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  Speaker 2: back though on Monday. Putnam County Commission meeting this afternoon
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  Speaker 2: at five o'clock. The topic of the Buffalo Google Data
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: Center is expected to be on the agenda. Expecting a
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: pack house there tonight. Of course, our news department will
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: be covering that story posted this morning. WV Metro News
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  Speaker 2: dot com House Democrats had another kitchen table event last
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: night away from the kitchen. This one at City Center
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: at Slyke Plaza. Election Day is five weeks from today.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: And you can read the comments from folks like House
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  Speaker 2: Minority Leader Sean Hornbuckle out of Cabell County, Delegate Hollis
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  Speaker 2: Lewis from here in Kanawha County. Next one is tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: night in Boone County. It's going to be one in
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: Jefferson County on Sunday. Hancock on the 14th of October
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: in Cabell County on October 19th. And again, you can
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: read Jack's story at WVMetroNews.com. I want to say a
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  Speaker 2: special thank you to everyone who joined us at Capital
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: Market late yesterday afternoon for our classic TV stars gathering.
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  Speaker 2: Kathy Garver from Family Affair, Julie McCullough from Growing Pains,
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  Speaker 2: who I did not know was from Wyoming County. I
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  Speaker 2: had no idea. I mean, I literally did not know
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  Speaker 2: that she was a West Virginia person. She's from Wyoming County. She,
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: of course, played Mike Seaver's girlfriend on Growing Pains. She
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: also was in the show Sharknado. Um, so yeah, Wyoming
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  Speaker 2: County did not, did not know that. Uh, but, and also, uh, Mrs. Gilligan, Dreamer, Denver, uh,
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  Speaker 2: big shout out to everyone at Capital Market for hosting this.
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  Speaker 2: It was a great event. We got plenty of pictures posted,
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  Speaker 2: WCHS Network, uh, on the Facebook page and also, uh, on, uh, my,
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: my page, Dave Allen Radio. So go be sure and
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: check that out. I had to explain though, to a lot,
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: a couple of the younger members of our staff, what
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: life was like when you only had three or four channels.
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  Speaker 2: Because there were two members of the staff, I will
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: not name them by name, but two members of the
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: staff said that they had never heard of either show.
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: And that's okay because time marches on and a lot
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: of new shows, I don't have any clue. But literally,
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: you grew up like I did in the 70s and 80s.
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, early part of my childhood, we literally got
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: three or four channels. I think they increased it to
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: like six. And none of them were on the computer.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: None of them were on the phone. They were actually
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: on a TV station. the size of an outbuilding that
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: weighed 8,000 pounds in the living room. But it was
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: a great event. I appreciate everybody for coming out. Festival
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: in Charleston. Among the things happening quickly, the Sydney 79th
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: Annual Gazette Mill, Kanawha County Majorette and Band Festival going
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: on over at Lately. Complete list of things going on festival.com
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: or check out their Facebook page as well. Mr. Meadows,
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: what you got on the show today?
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  Speaker 15: 10.06, Senator Shelley Moore Capito from the nation's capital. We've
• 51:55
  Speaker 15: got about six different topics we want to get into today.
• 51:58
  Speaker 15: with the senator, so we'll talk to her. Eric Tarr,
• 52:01
  Speaker 15: Putnam County Senator, on this nuclear issue, this idea of
• 52:05
  Speaker 15: radioactive nuclear spent fuel being deposited in West Virginia.
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  Speaker 2: Get his thoughts.
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  Speaker 15: Brad McElhaney, his exchange with the stranded Viking yesterday, the
• 52:14
  Speaker 15: Governor's Communications Director at 1106.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I'll see you later today. Until then, have
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: fun and love somebody.
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