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08/07/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - MAYOR MONDAY: Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin, Robert Stonestreet, Steve Animal · The Dave Allen Show

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well. It is Mayor Monday coming up later in the show. Charleston Mayor
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Amy Schulberg Goodman or Chief of Staff Matt Sutton will be here. One of
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the two, I'm not sure which one's going to walk through the door here
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at Parmar Store Studio. One of them will at around nine to forty years
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sold this morning. We also we're going to spend some time talking about this
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big event Thursday night at bill No Flight School. It is the Paint the
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Capitol City Green event. I'm gonna be m seeing that event from Marsha University's
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Quarterback Club along with Steve Annibal from her sister Station ninety eight seven, Wild
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and Wonderful, Classic Rock, the Mountain and Animals going to join us to
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talk about not only the event a little bit and Rob, but also to
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talk about the buzz about this new station here in Charleston. Everybody's talking about.
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Well, let me bringing somebody unlike myself, an animal and actually know
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what's going on with this paint the capital city green. To me. This
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Robert stone Street, who is the president of the Marshal Quarterback Club. Robert,
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good morning, How are you, sir? I'm well, Dave,
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how are you? I'm doing fine. So figured we'd have the guy,
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the important guy in here first to talk about this big event, and then
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Animal and I can just kind of muck it up, you know. In
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the second segment. How does that sound? Well, that sounds good.
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I'd say important. It's a little overrated, but I do what I can
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to keep the event going. Well. Again, you're with the Marshal Quarterback
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Club of Charleston's gonna be a big night up on the hill Thursday night,
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Robert, Yes, sir, this is our third year up at the bill
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No Flight School at Yeager Airport. We started this event up at the airport
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during the COVID when getting together in enclosed spaces was discouraged and folks really enjoyed
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the atmosphere and we've been going back now. This is our third time having
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the event up there. It is and it's a very unique place to have
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at number one one. I was up there Thursday for a meeting and what
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they're doing up there with this bill no Flight School is just incredible. I
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mean they just keep adding the number of students that are taking part in it.
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So kudos to Marshall University for pulling this off. But it's not just
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Marshall. I mean it's their school of course, but also the folks up
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at Western Uta International Yeager Airport and a lot of the elected officials got involved
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to bring the thing here. It's a great thing for the Charleston and for
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the entire metro valley. It absolutely is. It's a wonderful facility. If
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you haven't been up, I encourage you to come up on Thursday. Yeah
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you can be a great time to do it. Yeah. Great. Everything's
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right under the hangar there. Because I was talking to somebody about this over
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the weekend and they said, well, how exactly do they have it in
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the hangar? It works. I mean you just have everybody in there.
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It's a big party like tailgate type atmosphere. Let's talk about the Marshall Quarterback
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Club. What exactly is the Quarterback Club here? So the Quarterback Club is
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a booster club for the Big Green Scholarship Foundation. We have historically focused on
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the football program, hence the name, and we raise money for the football
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program. In recent years we started to focus more on sports in general at
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Marshall and basketball, baseball, softball, lots of other exciting things down at
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Marshall. But we're basically here to promote Marshall sports in the Canal Valley,
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raise money, support the program, increase awareness and just keep Marshall's top of
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mind here in the Fast and a lot. I think just about all the
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coaches are going to be there, is that right? Yeah, We're We're
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definitely gonna have coach Huff He's sort of our keynote speaker, Dan dan Tony
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from the men's basketball program. We anticipate having him, Chris Grassie the men's
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soccer program, and we're still working on the rest of the lineup. But
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we're hoping to have new baseball coach Greg Deals and hopefully the new softball coach
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Morgan Zircle, and maybe even the new women's basketball coach Kim Caldwell, and
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of course the president, mister Smith is gonna be there, and Christian Spears,
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athletic director, I think, is gonna be there. It's gonna be
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a great night up great and you know, this event just gets bigger and
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better every year. And as I mentioned the top of the show, Robert
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I had the opportunity to m see the event last year along with the semi
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legendary Steve Annible. We must have done something rights or maybe not done too
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much damage because you're having us back for the second straight year. But since
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then, you know, Steve and I are now co workers because he's with
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our new station, A wild, wonderful Class of Rock ninety seven a Mountain.
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We're gonna talk to with Steve and his co host Shockley about that a
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little bit later on. So where are we on tables? Because I mean,
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that's a big deal, it's a it's a it's a big event,
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big area, but you don't have unlimited space up there. Where are we
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on tables? Well, right now, we've got thirty two sponsored tables and
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those are available. I think we still have a few room, a little
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bit of room left. You can get a white sponsored table for eleven hundred
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dollars. Each table's ten seats, or you can be a Green sponsor for
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twenty six hundred dollars and get some priority seating and the potential of a sit
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with and interact with players and coaches as well. And we're looking at right
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now to have well over three hundred Herd fans at the event, so we're
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getting close to a sellout, but there's still there's still space we can make
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room. We will not be selling tickets at the door, so you will
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need to register in advance if if you want to come to the event.
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And again, this is one of those things that I said the entire Marshal
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community comes out for, but not just them. I mean, I think
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Charleston Mary Amy Schooler, a good one, is expected to to be there,
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some other elected officials are going to be there. Plus you got the
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cheerleaders that will make an appearance there too, And it's just kind of a
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raw, raw event to get people ready for the upcoming football season, which
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should be a good one for the Herd. Yes, we do have an
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exciting season lined up. We've got Virginia Tech is coming to Huntington in September
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and then the Herd is traveling to Raleigh to play NC State. So those
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are two pretty big non conference games. And then you know in the sun
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Belt, that's that's looking to be a really good conference for us. And
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we've already got a rivalry going with Appalachian State. Well that goes back years
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long time and that is rekindled quite quickly. And we're returning to Boone this
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year to take on, uh, those Mountaineers. And we don't want people,
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Robert to think that this was some kind of a fancy dinner or anything.
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I mean, you know, Annibal and I are running the thing.
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How fancy could it possibly be? But this is a like I said,
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it's a tailgate type event. There's always great food. Who's doing the food
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this year? So it is a tailgate style event, so um, you
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know, wings and other and other food. But we do have chef Paul
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Smith with ten ten Bridge and the Pitch. He did the food last year,
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it was wonderful. We're having him back again this year. We're gonna
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have local craft beer available, including some selections from Fife Street Brewing, who
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is one of our table sponsors this year. But it but it is very
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relaxed. You know where your game day gear for the event. Don't don't
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come out thinking that you're gonna as I said, you're not going to a
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banquet. Are going to basically what is the tailgate party? And you've got
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this thing is just so big. I mean, they've got the video screens
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up showing the highlights of seasons pass and things that we can expect for this
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season. As I said, it's an opportunity to interact with the coaches.
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They're all going to be there. From Dan Toni, who you never had
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a chance to hang out with, Coach D'Antoni. You're in for a good
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night and of course Huff two. But dan Toni has kind of got when
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he's there, you know, he didn't have all the stress on him that
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Huff does because Huffs just a couple of weeks away from the beginning of the
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season. So Dantoni is laughing it up and high five in people and just
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doing things that Dan D'Antoni does. Now, if people do want tickets for
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the event to get tickets are not sold at the door, so you got
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to get him advance. What do they need to do? You can call
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the Big Green at three o four six nine six four six six one,
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or you can email the Quarterback Club at MUQB Club Charleston at gmail dot com.
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And again I want to stress this because in the world of sports,
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and there's no bigger sports fan than I, we have a tendency, you
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know, to say, Okay, you're either WVU or your Marshall, you
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know, but that doesn't necessarily I attend to the WV event with Kariti here
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last week, the Inside of the Huddle event, the benefit for the United
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Way. You can actually support both teams, So I mean you can have
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you can. I'm on to lean a little bit toward Marshall because that's where
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I went, But you can support both teams absolutely. And I'm a dual
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graduate, Okay, to undergraduate school at Marshall and then I went to graduate
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school law school in Morgantown at WVU. So so yes, you can support
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both and we would welcome, welcome all to come to the event. Yeah.
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So it's gonna be a great night. It always is again when we
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get people together for this thing, and it just goes to show you again
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the support that Marshall has here in the Kanal Valley because they do similar events
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in different areas, but there's nothing quite like this in any other city like
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there is here in the Charleston area. Yeah, and I'll just just mention
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you can buy individual tickets. You don't have to pay for a whole table.
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Those are only sixty dollars so if you want, But but you gotta
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get him advance yah to get him an event not available to or give us
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the contact information again, sure that it's the Big Green three zero four six
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nine six four six six one, or you can email the Quarterback Club at
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MUQB Club Charleston at gmail dot com. All right, it's gonna be a
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great night, looking forward to it, Robert, I appreciate you being here
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man. Thanks a lot of thank you, Dave Arbert stone Street again from
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zero zero. Wait. Steve Animal from our sister Station ninety eight seven of
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the Mountain Wild Wonderful classic rock, along with his co host Shockley, stopping
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by the studio. How are you, aunt man? How are you?
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We're good? We're good. Had a great weekend. Uh survived it,
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did a road trip up to Detroit, had to see the peep so had
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an eightieth and ninetieth birthday to celebrate. You don't look at day over seventy
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five. That's that's amazing. Shockley's with us as well. How are you
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man, Hey, It's good to go. Yeah, I earned a privilege
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to be here in the HS studios where if there is a nuclear holocaust,
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I want to come into this room right here. You gotta go down the
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steps and you feel like you're an abasement and I can smell them all nice
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like to keep me away from general population. It's it's it's it's better if
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they just kind of keep me away from things. So Animal, they're turning
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us loose again at this thing. And Robert stone Street and I talked about
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it at the top of the show. With the Marshal Quarterback Club and paint
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the Capitol City green. Third United put to build no Flight School at Marshall
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University up on the hill at the airport. I guess they didn't learn the
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lesson last year that a live mic in the hands of David Animal can be
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a dangerous thing. And that's true. And to celebrate we are going to
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absolutely prepare nothing. That's kind of the late role. I am not joking.
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It's gonna be a good time, good fundraiser of course for Marshall University
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and the athletic club. I know a lot of the other sports coach heads
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will be roaming through the building. It should be a good time. Yeah,
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I mean pretty much every coach is going to be there. From what
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I understand, a couple of more kind of iffy because he had, you
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know, recruiting that up. But I know that d'antoni's going to be there,
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and I know coach Hop's going to be there, and he's the one
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that's got everything going on right now. Yeah, with the kick opening week,
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you know, coming here in just a couple of weeks. Last year,
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Steve, was the first year you and I got to m see it
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and we had fun. Last year. We did. We did, and
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there's a good grub. So yes, good grub good. We're there.
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Absolutely absolutely, And as I said, and I was talking about this,
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Robert and uh and Shock, you can jump into this as well. You
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can support both WVU and Marshall and State and you see and all the other
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schools here in the area. I'm kind of an example of someone who went
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to Marshall, has a degree from Marshall, went to WVU, has a
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degree from WVU, went to State, has a degree from State, and
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then, um, were you kicked out of that many places? I actually
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finished, but I think it was like, all right, dude, we
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really need to get rid of you. So what do you want? Not
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that we don't want to take your money, but if we've ever met anybody
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that is grossly overqualified for radio, I think it might be shockedly. Yes,
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absolutely, Now you know I'm a Marshall guy. I believe Kelly Greene.
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But but see you kind of married into this thing, is that right?
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I did? I did? My wife Jody graduated there from I'm trying
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to think of the year now. I want to hang myself here. I
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know she went during the Randy Mosses years there and uh yeah, so uh
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I got dragged in through default and drinking and footballing and she loves college.
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Forty five minute drive to go, has some bruskies and watch football. You're
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in exactly she's driving. Yeah, there you go. And again we want
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people to understand this is not going to be a big, fancy fair.
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Just five hundred or so of your closest hurt and fanatics getting together and hopefully
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some of the band, the cheerleaders, football players, whoever. Coaches will
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definitely be there. You never know who's going to show up, so it's
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always a good time. It's pretty much the way it was last year against
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Steve animal is with us. He and I will be him seeing this event.
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Shockley is also here. He's also going to be tagged along. I
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understand you said free food. I'm like, yeah, he might be all
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degreed up, but he's still a radio guy exactly. I want to talk
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about the station guys, UM, and I don't want to take a slight
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bit of slight bit. Yes, you forget you back into this crazy business
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of radio. You did a couple of guest spots on the show, and
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Chockoley came in on a Friday and did the show with me, and just
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like a fungus man, it just wouldn't go away. And you're back again.
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Yeah, it's it's a lot of fun. We're having a ball a
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week number four. We I wasn't sure my key card was gonna work this
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morning, and wait, did you got a key card? And for three
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years I still haven't given me one of those. But the response guys to
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the station UM has been absolutely incredible. And again if you're not familiar,
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it's it's we moved the beat to one oh seven three, correct, and
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so we took we had nine to eighty seven, which had been to beat
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for many minutes. We put this thing on the air called The Mountain Wild
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Wonderful classic rock, and and just to clear upson confusion for anyone who says,
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well, there was already a rock station in town. Yeah, and
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big respect to those guys, and you and I both worked for that particular
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company. You're not gonna say anything negative about them. But but what what
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you guys are doing here, though, is it's totally different. Yeah.
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Because the fields wide open, we can do what we want, which is
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really awesome. So what we wanted was more rock, and so they're like,
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what do you want to play? It's like everything, Yes, everything
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I can get my hands on, with a lot less talk, absolutely,
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because sometimes there's too much chatter in the mornings, and especially for the rock
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radio audience. So yeah, I think one of the ways that we were
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able to diversify our station and compared to some of the others, is that
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we keep it short, we keep it sweet. It's not a lot of
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well, there's no necessity for a canned laughter or anything like that because we
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don't tell each other what we're going to do before we crack them light exactly,
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So it makes it very entertaining. I don't know what he's going to
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say, or vice versa. And that makes for good radio, it does.
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And one of the things too, being I'm a I'm a classic rock
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fan. That's what I'm generally speaking listen to. And I've had opportunity to
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work at a couple of classic rock stations. You're playing some music on there
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that you maybe haven't heard in the Charleston area for a while, going back
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and getting some of those titles that maybe people forgot about a long time.
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I mean there, I'm pulling stuff back from when I first got here about
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thirty three years ago. Um, some of the stuff that you haven't heard,
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maybe you heard it once, and uh so I'm gonna keep digging in.
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There's thousands of records that we played back in the day that just and
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he literally means records because I guess all three of us, all three of
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us actually probably started out playing records are from that era. Yes, we
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had a Sunday morning syndicated program where we was called Mission Control where we would
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get one of those real big records and put it on the turntable and so
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yeah, and then it was cart machines. But yeah, we all but
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we all actually did but getting back to the point for I interrupted myself there.
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Uh, that's what That's kind of the whole The whole thing about the
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station is is kind of digging up some of this music and a lot of
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people. Again, what kind of separates us is there were a lot of
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people that loved classic rock. They grew up in the seventies, in sixty
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seventies, eighties, even in the nineties. They they like Leonard Skinner,
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they like the Almond Brothers, they like Clapped In and some of these people.
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But they don't necessarily like the new stuff. And because there's kind of
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a big difference, and it's not good or bad, it's different, right
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which wee what what was what's considered classic right now? What's considered new stuff?
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We don't. We don't do new stuff. And we dealt with that.
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The last radio station we worked for that we did the Morning Short for
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Yeah, it was a rock station, but they played a lot of that
22:30
emo stuff and all that, where we just we would just turn it down
22:33
and you know, listen to other music on our cell phones just because we're
22:37
the whiny emo stuff we weren't into whereas this it's right on target. The
22:42
music is dead on I mean hearing the cars again and hearing some of the
22:47
deep tracks from Sticks again. Um, it's been The response has been overwhelming
22:52
because there has been a need for that in this market for a while.
22:55
Yeah, so it's kind of it's kind of fun. And just even looking
22:59
back, like you said, Almond Brothers or Zeppelin, I mean back you
23:02
know in the nineties, you know, they were kind of considered classic at
23:06
the time. Now they're really classic, exactly. Yeah. We we've given
23:12
rock a new leash on life, if you will, and you have a
23:15
better choice and the and there I mean as I said, uh, this
23:18
is week four, is that? Yeah? I been that long. I
23:21
know Friday I did the best of Steve Animal. That's probably that didn't take
23:26
long. Oh no, no, yeah. I was like, yeah,
23:27
I said, this is the best you're gonna get. Ye, so is
23:32
our farewell tour right yeah. But but I mean again, the response of
23:36
this has just been incredible and it follow us on on social media. I
23:40
help out a little bit with that. Seven the Mountain and you can listen
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the app is being developed, yes, because we've got to get that app
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Chocolates working on it right now. Yes, but we need to go higher
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up. Yeah, no doubt, do some bagging and uh and the in
24:00
the lineup again. You guys do mornings, but you've got Matt Murphy mc
24:04
guitar Murphy uh uh doing mid days. And then you got the awesome Tricia,
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four four zero one one zero one. Uh. Tex says I can't support
24:52
both universities and athletics. Answer me, this does Alabama or Auburn does Alabama?
25:00
For Auburn or Auburn for Alabama. Absolutely not talked about Mike. Well,
25:04
no, actually they don't. But but let's keep in mind that WVU
25:08
and Marshall don't play each other. Yeah, so it's not I mean to
25:14
me as as a Marshall guy, it's not a natural rivalry because they haven't
25:18
played in basketball in years. They still play baseball and some of the other
25:21
sports. But um, you absolutely can when they don't play each other,
25:25
right, I never understood the whole either or thing. Yeah, well there's
25:30
you know, both sides are probably guilty. I mean, I think it's
25:33
a crime that they don't play. I mean I really do. And I
25:36
know the arguments. They say that it's all it's all gained for Marshall and
25:38
WVU has nothing to gain. You know, you can only refer them and
25:41
I completely understand that in the world of dollars and cents in sports, because
25:45
that's what it's all about these days. But I do think it's criminal that
25:48
they don't at least play in basketball. I mean, everybody look forward to
25:52
the Capitol Classic when the legislature was in session, you know, having it
25:55
over to colle Covicion Center and getting everybody together, talk a little bit of
25:59
smile can um. And of course, you know, I think a big
26:03
part of that had to do with Dan dan Tony, because Dan Tony likes
26:07
to poke the bear, so to speak, no pun intenda. And he
26:11
did a good job. He did. He did an excellent job on that.
26:12
But but I do appreciate the texture bringing that up, all right,
26:15
and the reason you know, again, we had you here to talk about
26:18
the big event on Thursday night up on the hill. We'll start about what
26:21
time, five thirty. Yeah, you can start rolling in like around five
26:25
five thirty. Event, we'll get underway at six o'clock. He can still
26:27
get the tickets. If you don't want to whole table, get an individual
26:33
ticket. I think it's sixty bucks. You can call the Big Green at
26:36
three or four six nine six four six six one. See how he rolled
26:41
that off the top of his head. There after it's happening, and when
26:42
he turns it on, he's got this moves going on. Well, I've
26:47
been doing it for quite a few years. But yeah, it's it is
26:51
gonna, it's gonna it's gonna be a great night up there. And again,
26:55
even if you're there, there will be people there that you know,
26:59
aren't hard as hardcore fans is what we are, and that's okay. It's
27:02
just it's a good time and it's for it's for great cause there too.
27:04
And if you've never been up to the flight school, it is very awesome
27:08
because you'll see the Marshall planes, you'll be on the tarmac, you'll be
27:11
in the hangar. The whole event is pretty cool up on the mountain,
27:15
it is. And I was talking about that with Robert a little bit earlier,
27:18
guys that what they have done with that flight school up there is absolutely
27:22
incredible. And I had a meeting up there about this event on Thursday and
27:25
I got a chance to, you know, see talk to some of the
27:26
students that were there and about what they're learning up there. This is a
27:30
first class operation that Marshall University has put together here that that a lot of
27:34
schools of their size simply don't have around the country. True, and Coach
27:38
Huff will be flying in from Huntington from Huntington Airport via that long commute.
27:45
Yeah, well, you know you got to show your stuff off. Yeah,
27:49
exactly right, So, well, it's going to be a great time.
27:52
We look forward to us seeing everybody up there. Oh there's a Texas
27:56
says the animal is on the prowl again. Yes, I am h Texas.
28:02
Dave agree. W and Marshall should play every year in football and basketball.
28:06
Fans want this game to happen, and it's always a sellout thing.
28:07
It is, it is. And I remember when they were Marshall a few
28:12
years back. What a great game. Yeah, I mean it both both
28:17
fans, you know, both sides were just having a great time and it
28:21
was packed well in the wv's conference now has eighty eight teams in it,
28:25
so just keep adding add added to it. Annibal, my friends, Shockley's
28:30
great always having you guys here. But I don't want you to think,
28:33
I don't want anybody to think, Annibal before we let you go, that
28:36
you've given up any of your other interests, because, like me, what's
28:41
another couple of jobs, right, actually making that money with East Coast Tease
28:45
and some new stuff. Talk about that. Yeah, the Vinyl Frontier.
28:48
That has to be the coolest name ever, the Vinyl Frontier. Yes,
28:52
we've actually rewrap. He comes up with a great idea every now and then.
28:56
Yeah, I can't take all the credit for it. Boomer and the
29:00
rest of the crew do a great job there. But we've wrapped the one
29:04
hundred vehicle Woodie's a new ride for the Beat, and the Mountain truck.
29:11
We've got that actually in the East Coast He's parking lot. We're actually gonna
29:15
light that thing up. It's gonna really good. Oh yeah, yeah yeah.
29:18
And what kind of other services do you offer. I'm giving the opportunity
29:21
for free plugs. So we do not only screen printing, but embroidery.
29:26
We just added eleven new embroidery heads. So yet polos, hats, shirts,
29:30
whatever, promotional products, and a whole line of like you said,
29:34
the vinyl stuff. We've been doing political signs, yard signs, big signs,
29:40
four by eight building signs, all the signs you see like around the
29:44
football fields and stuff. We do that kind of And let's go ahead,
29:47
and you mentioned political, let's go ahead and throw that out there because it
29:48
is political season. It didn't used to start this early, but that's the
29:53
in the era of the perpetual campaign. Ye. So I know our legislators
29:57
are all in session right now, but if anybody out there is running for
30:00
office, so you're thinking about running for office next year presentations everything, get
30:04
those signs. Yep. Absolutely. You can call East Coast Teas or the
30:07
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don't delay. Operators are standing by. Not available in Alaska, Hawaile important
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Rich guys. As always a pleasure. We'll be listening to the show again
30:26
tomorrow morning. And one of the things I like about it too is that
30:29
you guys go in and it's just okay, it's just another day of rock
30:32
and roll. And what I mean by that, I don't mean that in
30:33
a bad way, but you go in. I don't have to say,
30:36
well, what do you I mean because me people said, what are you
30:37
talking about today? What do you can you? Guys, it's the music
30:41
star. The music is the star. What happened overnight matters sometimes what's happening,
30:48
you know, traffic, weather. To get people into work while listening
30:51
to music so they can have a great ride in, yeah, we do.
30:55
We were able to send some of the listeners up to the Ted Nugits
30:56
show last night. Uncle Ted was in Mayor Herietta, Ohio, it's part
31:00
of the Aadelphia Summer Concert Series, and we sent some Mountain listeners up there.
31:03
They got to go up and enjoy a sold out show there last night
31:07
in Marietta, fueled in part by Parmark. Indeed, it was so next
31:10
it's going to be Springsteen. Yes, yeah, we're giving tickets. Talking
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all right, thanks gays. We'll see everybody Thursday night up on the Hill
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three five five zero zero A. Well, we finally got the special session
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35:16
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programming Notes. SENA financier Eric Tarr will be on with Poppy to talk about
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the session at the top of the show. It's welcome and now to the
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Palmar Store Studios. Mayor Amy Schuller, Goodwin, how are you, good
35:34
morning. I'm wonderful, great to have you here. Of course, the
35:37
theme of the morning has been to paint the Capitol City green event and you're
35:39
gonna be there. You're gonna be there. And we're especially said because now
35:45
now you have a I mean, always had a reason to be there,
35:47
but now you really got a reasonable I do. My son, Joseph is
35:52
just moved him in to his dorm room over the weekend and campus looks amazing.
35:59
By the way. He is a transfer student. He's going to Marshall
36:02
now. So I truly am a house divided. I've got one at WV
36:06
and one at Marshall, so I need one one of those little flags,
36:08
you know. But he's a member of them Marching Thunder. He made the
36:15
quads. He's a drummer, which you know, you think if you marry
36:20
a drummer, you give birth to like a pianist or a trumpet player.
36:24
Nope, I got another drum another drummer, another drummer. It's very loud
36:29
in my house. But we're excited. We're excited about it. It's the
36:34
paints, it's it is um it's an amazing event. I unfortunately had to
36:38
miss last year with you. I know it was a huge crowd, but
36:40
the first year that I went, it was just lights out fun. I
36:45
mean so much fun. The kids love it. They pass out all this
36:49
fun Marshall University stuff. I got my clear bag on Saturday. When I
36:53
went to drop off my son, they were selling a whole bunch of stuff,
36:55
new new rules they have at the stadium, which okay by me.
37:00
I gotta I got a new bag. Yeah, so I'm like, oh,
37:05
I need to have this. I want to throw this out of totally
37:07
unrelated to you. A caller just got with Ryan wanted me to mention this
37:10
to today's National Purple Heart Day. So Ran, I appreciate you letting me
37:15
know that I want to talk. I want to I want to start by
37:16
talking about the weather, just from because this is what they call in the
37:20
weather business text here, this is what they call a severe weather alert day.
37:25
Uh, I mean, we one of these weird things. This morning,
37:29
Mayor. I'm driving in from Tad's Valley a little after seven this morning,
37:31
sun is shining as brightly as I can and it's pouring the rain on
37:35
the interstate. We are expecting some pretty severe conditions later in the day.
37:38
And I bring this up to you because the city, like all cities,
37:43
you gotta go into a little bit of an extra mode there when this happens.
37:45
Yeah, we do, if you recall, uh and I do.
37:50
Boy gosh, you is in twenty nineteen we had an episode like this,
37:53
um and we actually had two tornadoes touchdown in the city of Charleston when we
37:59
had really bad weather back then. But you know, as I mentioned to
38:02
you on my way in the studio, I got an email from my Director
38:06
of Homeland Security saying, appears the chances have increased in all categories for the
38:12
severe weather threat today. Storms expected in this area around two. Our Office
38:19
of Emergency Services, the EOC is already in place. It was in place.
38:25
The county always does a great job. Jennifer Harold who's the county manager,
38:30
and CW. Sigmund and all of those folks, they do an amazing
38:34
job. But our folks will be up there and be ready to go high
38:37
winds, damaging hail. So get tucked away if you're going to be somewhere,
38:43
kind of get tucked away and stay there. But that is going to
38:46
be the first big round. So by one fifteen, one thirty, lock
38:51
yourselves in place. And you know mother nature, she's fickle, right,
38:53
she could be here a minute, she could change, she could move.
38:57
But right now, what we're saying is starting at two o'clock and then what
39:00
they tell me is there going to be it's gonna be another sweep through in
39:04
the evening where we're gonna have to kind of keep our eyes on the sky
39:07
and um and watch for traffic. You know when it's I'm terring, you
39:12
know, I know you know this about mamateurial driver. I don't like to
39:14
drive. I don't like to drive if it's just a sprinkle outside. So
39:17
something like this, I'm not going anywhere. I'm in my office. Unk.
39:22
Well, we are going to be going to the city council. Yeah,
39:23
we have a we have a packed agenda. They want to pack the
39:27
sleeping bag because it's going to be a long one, I think, right.
39:29
And one of the things I think that it's going to be brought up
39:30
and I want to touch on this is the UM is a needle change program,
39:34
or at least the latest one public meeting was held a couple of weeks
39:37
ago, about one hundred people on both sides of the argument showed up.
39:40
It is expected to be taken up tonight. What exactly is going to happen
39:44
with this tonight? Mar Yeah, sure so um our city clerk, Miles
39:49
Carry, who's just amazing. If you know Miles, he grew up in
39:51
the West Side. He's just a wonderful young man who is our city clerk.
39:54
Actually was trying to do um, trying to do some organization before the
40:00
meeting tonight, because we know there's a lot of interest in the public speaking
40:04
for this resolution, and there are lots of folks who are speaking in opposition
40:12
of this resolution. And what it is is to allow the Women's Health Center,
40:15
which is right there on Charleston's West Side, to begin a syringe exchange
40:23
program, uh in you know, encompassing other harm reduction services. This.
40:30
You know, when people say, oh, we don't we don't need that.
40:34
We got rid of it. We don't need it. What folks need
40:36
to realize is we do have a syringe exchange program in the state. Most
40:40
cities across the state of West Virginia have shyringe exchange programs already in place.
40:47
Restrictive rules right because we went through that many years ago about if you're going
40:53
to have one right, if you're going to offer that as a service within
40:57
you know, some some people when they get into you know, harm reduction
41:00
services or get into recovery. This is just one tool. This may not
41:06
be a tool that someone chooses, but this might be a tool that someone
41:08
chooses. The state pass laws of what you're allowed to do, what you're
41:15
not allowed to do when operating one of these, as did the City of
41:17
Charleston many years ago, and we made it restrictive. And I'll tell you
41:22
why we did. There are many of us, by the way, that
41:25
believe in all of these harm reduction services, and I'm actually one of them.
41:30
I have real concern about this location, and most important, I have
41:36
real concerns about how it came about. I will say this, I'm a
41:40
voting member of council. By the way, we have the largest council in
41:44
the country, and I am one vote. I've not had one single person
41:50
who is sponsoring this bill call me and ask for my vote, asked me
41:53
if I'm supportive of it. So the conversation should be robust. It absolutely
42:00
should be um. But but I have real challenges with this and right now.
42:05
I'm I'm a no vote on this bill tonight. When you have an
42:09
outside political entity pushing instead of physicians calling, I got a problem with that.
42:15
And that's what's happened with this that in addition to UH council members from
42:23
wards one, two, three, four, five, six, which are
42:27
all on the West side, tell me please don't don't do this. We
42:30
know there's a problem. But it's not just Charleston, you know. We
42:35
when we have these conversations, and we do have, like I said,
42:38
a certaine exchange program in the city of Charleston, and we can debate,
42:43
and we should, by the way, Dave, where they should be.
42:45
Who can you know? We have to have rules around them, right And
42:50
here's why, because it has been made into a political fight, not a
42:55
medical fight. It is a political as with everything ever you know nowadays,
43:00
and so you know, my job is to listen to both sides, which,
43:04
by the way, I have you see it on your desk here.
43:07
I've got a stack. It's probably like four inches thick of folks who have
43:10
called my office email, my office called our team members. By the way,
43:15
I had two meetings with two physicians over the past ten days. I
43:20
have, by the way, it wasn't even supposed to be on the agenda.
43:22
We were going to introduce it tonight. Give people more time to have
43:27
calls and do meetings. My outreach to the Women's Health Center, my meeting
43:31
with them isn't even scheduled until one o'clock today. Because I was out of
43:36
town Municipal League last week the week before, we couldn't make it happen.
43:39
I have meetings this week setup, which I'm not going to change, by
43:43
the way, because the conversation needs to happen. But the two physicians told
43:46
me ten days ago, twelve days ago, both different physicians in town,
43:52
who if I said their names, you would go, oh yeah, wildly
43:53
respected and wonderful. Yeah, we do have some challenges aiming, but it's
43:58
not just Charleston. It's in and I'm not gonna, you know, not
44:01
going to mention cities this city, this city, this city, this city,
44:05
this city of this city. So it's a county issue, it's not.
44:07
It's yeah, Charleston was within the county. But the conversation really needs
44:12
to be about where and how can we be effective in doing this? How
44:17
do you think this wouldn't be effective where it is, well, I think
44:22
number one. If you look at the CDC recommendations for Surrens of Change program,
44:25
one of their top pillars. You know, they have things like you
44:29
need to do this, and here here are the rules and guidelines right which.
44:30
I listened to the CDC like it, love it or hate it,
44:34
folks, I listen to them. They tell me to get my kids their
44:37
immunizations. By golly, I was bellied up to the pediatrician. I believe
44:40
in medical experts and what they're saying. One of the big pillars is community
44:45
support and trust. We don't have community support and trust around this location.
44:52
Because what I what I have here in my folder, I can show you
44:54
the laundo list. A lot of residents are very, very concerned. And
45:00
so when someone said last week to another council member, Amy Stalling, she
45:05
doesn't want to vote on this, let's let's push it through it we've got
45:07
to push it through. Well, that's a problem, folks, when you're
45:10
saying let's push something through and you have people still saying, wait a minute,
45:14
I want to meet, I want to ask questions. I've been talking
45:16
about this issue for six years and people make it an issue listen. There
45:22
are there are two sides, Goshi was there's probably moren't two sides to this
45:27
day, different perspectives. Do I believe in any effort to get folks into
45:32
recovery? Yeah, I want you to live. I do. I do.
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I want you to live. And I go back to when I watched
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if you were stand here, you'd want you too. So we all come
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As of now, you're a no vote. I am right now, okay.
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This is the first time that you've been on since the allegations against police
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chief Time were made public. The chief was suspended for three days. We
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all know all the details. There are those now that want an independent investigation
49:07
the way the city handled it. Your thoughts, well, there was an
49:10
investigation that was handled. It was not only with our HR department, which
49:16
was the most appropriate channel considering that chief is an appointed position. Listen,
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a lot of time and thought went into this. It was the one step
49:30
before you literally show somebody the exit sign And this is what I feel good
49:36
about. It was investigated. I know by the way it was investigated by
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the FBI, and I would encourage anybody to call them and to have a
49:44
discussion with them. I feel very very confident about our actions about the investigation.
49:52
What is really difficult when you're talking about an HR issue, Dave,
49:55
is that I can't say very much. Our lawyers can't say very much.
50:00
So when you say all the details of come, that's actually not true.
50:04
It's not only because there are a lot of HR stuff that I am not
50:07
permitted to talk about. And oh, by the way, you shouldn't want
50:10
a mayor to do that, but the need to know from council members or
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folks who want to push this through. UM, this is this is not
50:21
about this type of investigation. In my opinion, it's just a political a
50:25
political push now, it's nothing more than nothing more than that, in my
50:30
opinion. You think it's all political, I do. I mean, I
50:34
hate it. You know, we're just talking to last segment. How you
50:36
know politics and politics has always involved in policy for sure, Um, but
50:42
to assail the integrity of our city manager, our city attorney, our chief
50:46
of staff and myself is ridiculous. I mean, you'd ask questions, ask
50:51
questions all day long, and we were open and transparent about the investigation,
50:55
literally detailing our lawyer in a two page memo. Uh. And then the
51:01
chiefs public comments about it. Uh. Listen, he has a long road
51:06
to hoe. There is absolutely no question about it. Um. But we
51:12
believe that we did absolutely everything with integrity uh and honesty, and so I
51:19
always feel good about that. So what's going to happen That city council might
51:21
because I've been resolution that folks will vote on up or down, okay,
51:25
for for an independent investigation. Okay, yeah, And I don't even know
51:29
what that means, I really, I mean I have it in front of
51:30
me, but and I read it. But there there was one done.
51:34
There was a there was an investigation that was done, and it was done
51:38
including the FBI, and they found absolutely no abuse of power or anything that
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was nefarious in it. So I it's done. So if if the vote
51:51
does, I know, we got to close outter but but but if the
51:52
vote does come for an independent investigation, then forward, I got no problem,
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problem, no problem, all right, Mayor. It's always pleasure to
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have you here. It was good to see you too. I'm looking forward
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to see on Thursday. I'll be hey. I'll be the girl in the
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green well. It shouldn't be hard to find. Mary shoot a good one.
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I appreciate you being here Ryan Nicholson as our producer today. Thank you
52:15
so much, Ryan, and also thank you to Steve Animal and to Shockley
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and Robert stone Street as well. Coming up on the show tomorrow, DELI
52:22
get Daniel Linville is here. Uh there's some you know, with new court
52:24
coming in, some thing's got to be upgraded a little bit in in that
52:29
area down Capel County, May Scan. We're talking about that with him.
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Uh so, uh gotta go. I will see you tomorrow. Until then,
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