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02/05/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - MAYOR MONDAY: Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin, Chase Hatcher, Judge Mary Claire Akers · The Dave Allen Show

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talk about that, plus a little bit later on Charleston, meure Amy Schuler
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Goodman will stop by with her monthly visits for a Mayor Monday, and Judge
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Mary Clair Acres is here. You know we are only a week and a
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couple of days away from Valentine's Day. Judge Acres will be continuing a tradition
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starting years ago by Judge Charles King of doing marathon weddings, meaning several weddings
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back to back on Valentine's Day. And Judge Acers courtroom, she's going to
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twenty minutes or so from now, the first whistle will blow and the basketball
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will be tipped off for the first time over at West Virginia State University four
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of the Parmar Shootouts. We're talking about thirty two games in all the top
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boys and girls basketball team in the state are there. Chase Hatcher at Parmar
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Store is one of the guys behind the gathering joids us now from the campus
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of West Virginia State University Institute. Chase, good morning, Welcome to the
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show. Good morning, Dave, glad to be here. The first matchup
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is at nine thirty this morning, Chase, and it's a girls matchup with
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the Hurricane taking on Ravenswood. In all thirty two games between now and late
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Thursday night. That's a lot of basketball, mister Hatcher, a lot of
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basketball. This year, we have an extra day, so this is the
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first time we've had four days. Let's you know, We've usually had three
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days. So we talked about it last year, trying to get a fourth
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day because of the teams that have just you know, that have messaged us
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or called us about wanting to come to the to the parm Our shootout,
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and so we decided to try to do another day and get the kids a
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chance to come here and play. And I will mention that a complete list
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of all the games, you know, because again it goes back and between
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the boys and the girls. And there's a lot of local teams here,
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but a lot of teams have traveled a great distance to be here as well.
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It's available on the social media pages of par More Stores and Chase.
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You couldn't ask for a better venue than Virginia State. I mean, there's
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plenty of free parking, just a phenomenal place to watch a basketball game.
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Yeah, one hundred percent. I've been through gyms all throughout the country watching
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basketball and this is top notche. I mean, they treat us well here.
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They take care of us. But just if you're a fan, I
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mean, just to be able to watch that game here and it's just there's
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no bad sea it's I mean, it's it's top notch for sure. I
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would put it up against anybody, and it's a great It's great for Westervirginia
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State University to Chase because it gets a whole lot of high school kids.
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Again, we're talking about thirty two teams in all. It gets them their
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parents, their grandparents on campus as well, so there's a there's a win
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here for wester Virginia State as well. Absolutely. You know, I know
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some of the coaches that last year took their teams around the campus and let
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them look at different things and see, you know what all this campus has
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to offer, because you know, I graduated from here and it's just even
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since I've graduated, but it's just, I mean it's grown and just it's
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a it's a beautiful place, beautiful campus, and we're glad to be here
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for sure. Talk with Chase Atcher from Parmars Stores about the Parmarer Stores Shootout
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of the all time great basketball players in the history of Logan High School.
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Of course, your brother Mark was a legendary coach there. What would it
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have been like for you to play in an event like this, because again
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there's really nothing else in the state like it. Well, it would have
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been a memorable experience for sure. I mean to come over here with your
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with your fans you know, and me from Logan and playing for Logan.
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You know, we always bring a big crowd. And anytime you can play
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in the Charleston area with the news reporters and the news and you know now
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with Twitter and all that kind of stuff, it would be just it would
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be something that I would always remember and to be able to experience with my
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teammates and coaches. So it's just a great event. I mean it's and
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you get to if you want to, you know, get for ten dollars.
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You can watch all these games starting at nine thirty and going to eight
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thirty to night for ten dollars. Now you can't leave and come back,
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but it would just you know, as a basketball fan, you know,
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I think if I came over here, I just enjoyed watching games and trying
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to stay here and watch games too, I mean, just just to experience
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it. And you know, Chase, there's so many people to work to
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pull this off. So I want to say hats off President Cage and the
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people that stayed, including men's basketball coach poor Rick Green to GW Mick Price
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from Ravenswood, Mikey wall Palm Marshwortz. It takes a lot to put this
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entire thing together. Yeah, it does. I mean we start working on
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it while we're here at the tournament. I mean, we got people messages
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already wanting to be in next year's tournament. It's you know, we give
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every kid a T shirt with our logo on it in the year, but
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it's it's it's a lot of work. We get T shirts, we get
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different things that we do. We put it on Twitter, we we we
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do every game live that way people can watch that. You know that they
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can't make it their work or whatever. But it's it's a great event.
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I mean, it's it's a super event. That's there is no other event
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like this in the state of West Virginia for sure. You know, you're
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talking about kids playing four days of basketball, all through the day and all
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through the evening. So it's, uh, it's a tremendous event. And
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you know when you're talking about thirty two teams too, I mean you just
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do the simple math. A lot of these teams aren't going to make the
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state tournament, and maybe they don't have the history of one of the great
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basketball traditions in the States. So it's an opportunity for them again. And
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they're coming from all regions, from the Northern Panhandle, the Eastern Panhandle,
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out of state, they're all coming here. So it's a great opportunity for
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them too. Because some of these teams may not make it back to Charleston
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here next month, so it's a good opportunity for those folks as well.
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Yeah, like last year, Jefferson came down and you know, that's a
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pretty good trip. And then this year we got Martinsburg coming, So I
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mean that's it's unbelievable for those teams to come down here. You know,
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we get them to play two games. But last year Jefferson went to the
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Capitol and got the tour of the capital, and you know, I don't
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know, they probably not a lot of those kids will ever get to do
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that again. I think martins Work might be doing something like that this year
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where they're going over to the Capitol and having lunch and getting to tour of
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the Capitol and getting to kind of see a little bit of that as well.
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All right, Chase, I know you got to get to it because
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game starts at nine to thirty the first one, and again, the way
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these games work is there's not a whole lot of time between the games.
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Literally, at halftime of game one, the game two participants will be out
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there doing their warm ups and it literally, what is it ten minutes between
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games something like that. Ten to fifteen minute stops. Yeah, we try
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to stay it on the schedule for sure, because if not, they can
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get out of hand. But you know it's uh, they get ten minutes
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after the game boom, and then we start and warm up at halftime,
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like you said, And it's a it's a boom boom thing. You know,
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it's a it's a NonStop thing for sure. All right, Chase,
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We'll let you get back to it, man, I appreciate it. We'll
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see you over there later today. Thanks a lot, Thank you very much.
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Come out and watch us. Some ten dollars to see all the games.
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N't be to Chase Hatcher again from Parmar Stores. First game tips off
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at nine thirty this morning. Eight games boys and girls each day all the
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way through Thursday night. So again, uh, game changer, I didn't
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a big, big part of this as well. At all what happens on
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the campus of West Virginia State University again. In game one, it's a
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girls matchup with Hurricane and Ravenswood. That's followed by the by Ravenswood and Greenbrier
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West and James Monroe and Gilmour County and a girl's game followed by the Calvary
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Baptist Boys taking that Robert C. Byrd. Then a girl's matchup with Riverside
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with the boys of Charleston Catholic taken on the Bluefield Beavers. Then a boys
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right. So Valentine's Day is a week from Wednesday, and you're getting ready
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to to get some people married up. I am. This is the fourth
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annual King of Hearts Day where we set aside the entire day to perform weddings.
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We do some adoptions on that day too, because it's also a nice
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day to do that, But we decorate our courtroom and anyone who wants to
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get married on that day, we welcome him in and we marry him up.
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That's what we do on Valentine's Day. Talk about the history behind this
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event, Well, Charlie King, who is my predecessor, did this sept
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for several years in a row. He set aside the February fourteenth, and
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he called it the King of Heart's Day. We all had a good time.
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Those were days I usually didn't have cases because I was an assistant prosecutor
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then, but I would come over and watch and it was just really nice
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to watch people get married all day long. How many people did you marry
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up last year? I can't remember. I think maybe eleven, maybe twelve
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couples could have been more. I can't remember what I told you. Well,
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you called me up, and actually on Valentine's Day, I'll probably have
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you call up from there. In between the ceremonies. I think that was
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rund around eleven or twelve, I think so. And it does take a
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lot of time, you know, eleven or twelve people come in with their
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families. We let them take pictures, do whatever they want to do.
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So as much time as people want to spend, we allow them to spend
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because it's really nice for my staff to get to do it as well.
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And what time do you start. We start as early as people want to
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anytime from you know, nine to four thirty, we will do them.
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You know, last year I did have a social media commenter who said that
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I was I should not be doing this because I was forcing people to get
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married. So I want to be clear to your radio listeners. I am
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not forcing anyone to get married, but anyone who wants to is welcome on
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Valentine's Day. No one is being forced to know. There's no guns or
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anything like that at least not from you. Maybe the maybe you're bailiff or
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you. So have you ever? How am I going to phrase this?
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Judge? Have you ever done any follow up with people to see if they're
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still married? I have not yet. I've thought about it. So we
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get Every year the Supreme Court asks us how many weddings we performed, and
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we tell them and I think we just did that count for twenty twenty three,
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which made me count when I started in twenty twenty one, and so
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we have done close to three hundred weddings in the three I'll be three years
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in March. So well, it's going to know people are still getting married.
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I guess a lot of people get married, and I'm always surprised,
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you know, lots of people show up, they just decide that day to
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get married, and they do it well. And I think for the and
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I'm going to stereotype guys here for a moment, you know, next to
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maybe Christmas or the opening day of baseball season. It's an easy day to
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remember too, that you were married on Valentine's That's exactly right. So any
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guy out there doesn't know what to do, I can help you. Now.
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Now would be the time to do it. Do you need to call
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ahead or make an appointment or anything, or you do not? We take
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walk ins. If you want to call ahead to set aside a specific time
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because you don't want to wait, you can definitely do that. It is
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three zero four three five seven zero three six seven. That is my assistant
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Kim. She will set you up for whatever time it is that she want
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to do it. And you talked about the families coming down there as well,
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so there's plenty of opportunities for them to take pictures. Do you let
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people record the whole thing if they want to just do it on their phone
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or bring a videographer with her, I sure do whatever they want to do.
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People do it all different ways. I've had people play music and walk
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down the aisle, open the doors. I've had, you know, pretty
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extravagant setups where brides wear very big dresses, they have flowers, they have
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flower girls. I have, and I have people who just come in with
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jeans and t shirt and want three minutes. So it's whatever anyone wants for
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that particular, it's their day. Just I guess kind of be aware of
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the next person waiting there. Do you have like an on deck circle or
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anything or they I'm just trying to picture this because I didn't get to come
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down last year. I Thinkerry, who just said, came down last year
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and to do the story on it, but I didn't get to come down.
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I mean, I'm just thinking. You have people like you in warming
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up, you know, like get like at a baseball game or something.
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Sometimes if there's a line, they'll be out in the hallway waiting, and
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it's nice to just have so many people in and it's a good time to
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be in the courthouse. A lot of people associate bad things with being in
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the courthouse, so that's true. This is a good thing that you can
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do in the courthouse, and that's what we look forward to doing. Can
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it's just kind of a heavy lift, I guess for your staff as well
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to be able to pull the it is. They do work very hard.
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We have it decorated, they make sure everything stays together. Kim of course
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coordinates everything. My assistant Kim Gregory has been there. I am not certain
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of the exact amount of time, but I know that it is somewhere around
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forty years she has been. She was in the Prosecutor's office with Judge King.
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She came over when he came over to the courthouse back in the eighties,
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and she has been a friend of mine ever since I was there,
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and so she continues to be my secretary. She works very hard and she
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coordinates the whole thing. Now, if somebody comes to you and they say,
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well, we want I mean there's obviously things when it comes to weddings
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that you have to say that you got to read out the book and what
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the law says and whatever. But if people want to do their own vows
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or anything like that, is that it's just like it's just like any conventional
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wedding. I guess it just like any conventional wedding. If there's something they
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want in, I'll put it in. If they want to do it themselves,
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I'll let them. All they really need me for is to pronounce them
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married and to sign the license. Yeah, so it's really whatever people want
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to do well, And I think that's there's something to be said for that
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too, because a lot of times, and I'm not going to judge people
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or what everybody. Everybody does, what everybody does. But but sometimes with
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weddings, if they're in a you know, they had these big, extravagant
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things, and they spend thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars. They have
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showers, and they have tuxedos, and they have fifteen bridesmaids whatever. At
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the end of the day, you get the same piece of papers, same
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lifetime together. Yeah, in theory, in theory, in theory, in
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theory, absolutely, because I think I don't know that these statistics have changed
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that much, but it was like fifty percent of them are going to I've
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heard that statistic. I don't know if it's true or not. I think
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there are lawyers around town that on Valentine's Day give away to free divorces.
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Rusty Webbles one of those who die if you did do that for a while.
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I think there's another firm in town who's doing it now as well.
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But I'm not doing that. I just I just had this image judge of
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you know, you pronouncing them and then you know somebody and I'll pick on
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Rusty a little because he's a friend of mine. Rusty's out in the hall
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going just in case it doesn't work out, you know, you can have
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this that would not be allowed. Have you ever had let me ask you
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this, maybe not particularly for this day, on the King of Hearts Day,
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but you have you ever had a situation I don't want to get into
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too much detail here with names or anything, but have you ever had a
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situation with a wedding that's gone a little sideways? You know when I mean
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somebody tried to stop? Because you see that in the movies, you know,
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speak now forever hold your piece. Have you ever actually seen that happen?
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Has ever had somebody try to speak? Now? I have never had
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anyone try to speak now. I have had some I've had one situation where
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I was like, I'm not sure this person really wants to do it.
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So we stopped for a minute and we made sure everything was okay, and
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it just turned out that that person really did not like to be in front
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of people. Oh okay, that's another thing. I can't remember what statistic
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is, seventy five or eighty percent of the population does not like to stand
21:45
up or be in front of people. Oh yeah, Well, the number
21:48
one fear of people in general. It's not water, it's not spiders or
21:52
whatever. It's speaking in public is the number one fear of most people.
21:56
That's exactly right. So this also accommodates folks like that who don't want a
22:02
big audience. And on that day that was the problem. I'll see,
22:06
he just really was. He just locks up if he has to say anything
22:11
in front of anyone. So well, I mean, you know, hopefully
22:15
it all Hopefully it all turned out. I didn't trace that one down,
22:17
but well, we didn't put you in that position to it to have to
22:21
do that. But again, I think it's I think it's kind of a
22:22
cool thing that you do. And and again continuing on that tradition of judge
22:30
king, so here here's the thing. Guys or girls. Again, I
22:33
don't want to stereotype the guys or guys. You know, this would be
22:36
a great opportunity, you know, for you to make an impression. Come
22:40
down there and stand in front of the judge. Go ahead and go ahead
22:42
and do it, go ahead and commit you may as well. Life doesn't.
22:47
Life's too short right now? How long have you been married? If
22:48
you don't mind my ask him, I have been married for twenty two years.
22:52
Okay, we got married in two thousand and one. Okay, so
22:56
we've been married for a long time. Well, I'm carry the three double,
23:00
not not, I'm thirty thirty two years here. Wow, yeah,
23:04
I hope it will be thirty two later this year. Yes, so we
23:08
are. We've been married a long time and we're very happy together. And
23:14
I do like to do Valentine's Day as well to watch people get married because
23:18
it does remind me of the life that JB and I have together, and
23:21
I hope I can do that for other people. Judge is always it's a
23:25
pleasure to have you on the show to talk about this great day again,
23:29
your continuation of this idea started by Judge King. We'll have you calling up
23:33
last time on Valentine's Day because last year I remember that you were kind of
23:38
a little bit hairy there and we were texting micro and forth saying, okay,
23:41
are you are you ready? Are you ready to go? Because you
23:42
got of gotta get it in between ceremonies there. Absolutely, And like I
23:47
said, we don't know exactly how many people will show up, so I
23:49
will try to call as best I can. I'm sure I'll be able to
23:52
fit it in. Well. If we have a whole bunch of people,
23:56
I will stop for a minute and call you and letch Do you know that
23:59
when I first started I guess it would have been my second year in radio.
24:04
One of our one of the guys that worked at the radio station with
24:08
us, actually got married on the air. Oh no kidding, Yeah,
24:12
we actually and people may remember him because he used to work here. Kid
24:17
Conley, he worked on ninety six to one back in the Wolf days.
24:22
I think it was he and Amanda did the morning show here and he's down
24:25
in Rome, Georgia right now doing radio down there. But Kid and I
24:27
actually started in radio together. Whatever. But he got married his first marriage.
24:32
He got married in nineteen I don't want to say nineteen ninety, and
24:36
we actually broadcast the entire ceremony on the air. Now, the marriage didn't
24:41
last, but that's neither here nor there. It was still kind of a
24:45
unique iday. Maybe we should look into doing Maybe we should, you know,
24:48
if there's any if there's any brave soul out there who wants to get
24:49
married on the radio Valentine's Day, we can do it. Ryan's not married,
24:52
my producer, Ryan, would you maybe we can just I can't see
24:56
Ryan from where I am. I think he maybe just dove under the deck.
25:00
We'll get Ryan in here, we'll get we'll get the ride married on
25:02
the air. But yeah, we actually did the live broadcast on the air.
25:04
Well, that's pretty neat, yep, it was. It was a
25:07
good time back in today. All right. So again, it's next week,
25:11
and if you want to make an appointment, you can, but you
25:14
don't necessarily have to give the phone number again three zero four three five seven
25:18
zero three six seven. I did forget to say you have to get your
25:22
license from the county Clerk's office first. That's I knew there was something else
25:26
I wanted to bring up. You can't just show up, you got it.
25:27
So how does that work as far as the waiting period or whatever is
25:33
it? It's not like it used to be, right, No, it's
25:34
not like it used to be. You don't have to wait. You can
25:37
be in the county Clerk's office, pay their fee. I can't remember what
25:40
it is, maybe fifteen dollars to get your license, and then walk across
25:45
the street, go up the elevator of the fourth floor and come to my
25:48
side and get married right immediately. That part's free. Okay. Well,
25:53
well, looking forward to talking to you next week. I'm sure our news
25:56
team will be down there. And again it's it's it's just a fun thing
26:00
and you get a lot of media attention, you know, not you personally,
26:02
but I mean the ceremonies do they get to come out and uh and
26:04
uh. And so if you're thinking about thinking about making the plunge, now
26:08
would be the time the Supreme Court comes down. That last year they came
26:11
down, took pictures and put it in the Supreme Court newsletter. So there
26:15
were a lot of people around the state who do it, not just me,
26:17
but here in Kannak County, it will be me, all right,
26:19
Judge Mary clare Acres. I appreciate you being here, and I appreciate you
26:23
staying on your side of the desk because last time you said in the host
26:26
chair. But it's really tempting. There are a lot of buttons over there,
26:29
and well most of them well, as I told you the other day,
26:32
most of them don't work anyway, so they're just they're just here for
26:34
the looks. You know, we're redoing the studio. They tell me,
26:37
yeah, they well they said that when I came to work here and four
26:41
years ago. But actually i've seen the equipment in the building. They're going
26:45
to totally redo the studio. And they tell me that I am going to
26:48
be on camera oh the time, and just like copy is Yeah, so
26:51
when I'm talking to somebody, if you're on the phone, they'll actually have
26:53
your picture up there and and so, yeah, I'm going to be on
26:56
I'm going to be on camera. This is going to be different for me
27:00
because I'm not thirty two years of this. Man. I'm not used to
27:02
being on my radio though. That's it's the new medium. That's right.
27:06
You got to see you in here. Yeah, I'm not looking forward to
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kid, Lord, what are you doing over there? Goodness? I
32:46
just that's my phone. Throw an anvil over there, that's asked me,
32:51
gracious. I was at the Marshall University women's and men's basketball game this weekend.
32:55
It was so fun, so fun. I hated that the women lost,
33:00
but man o day, they have an amazing team. First loss in
33:01
the conference. On Saturday, they looked great. And the men's team just
33:07
shll ACKed this weekend Coastal Carolina. Ye, I mean they just shell ACKed
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them. I was talking about the Marshall Quarterback Club of it. You know,
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your presence is requesting. You know, I'm excited and you see that
33:16
Steve and I are going to be You know how much green I have now
33:21
because you get a kid there, Now's yeah, a lot. Actually,
33:23
I mean folks saying, oh, you're here to watch the basketball you know
33:27
boys there, girls game, I said, girls game, boys game,
33:30
and the pet band because the I gave birth to the really tall six foot
33:34
four drummer in the back of the Pet band. So and a big green
33:37
and white Strive shirt. So yeah, love Marshall. They're having good they're
33:42
having a good year, having a good year. You're glad to see your
33:45
family coming around. I know, well I have on my I've got blue
33:47
and half of my closet's blue and gold and half of it is green and
33:51
white. And I have been desperately trying to get one of those doormats that
33:53
says, like, you know, house to house or whatever. But my
33:57
boys like, Mom, that's so stupid. Don't do that. I'm like,
33:59
well, you're not here anyway, so you're not gonna look at it.
34:01
What do you care? Yeah, what do you care? Great weekend,
34:05
So city Council, we'll meet, we'll meet tonight and let's get serious
34:08
here for a moment. I am told Mayor, and I talked about this
34:13
on the show a little bit last week, that there is going to be
34:15
a presence tonight by some wanting council you and council to adopt a resolution of
34:20
sorts calling for a ceasefire with the situation in Israel. Your thoughts on that,
34:24
Yeah, so this is a this is something that we have been discussing
34:30
at least here in Charleston and in the Mayor's office for gosh, you was
34:34
a long time. I mean, it wasn't you know October seventh when the
34:38
attacks happened in Israel and we started to do some outreach to some members of
34:44
our community. There's there's a lot of hurt and by the way, it's
34:46
not just October seventh, it's for many, many years, you know,
34:51
past that. There's a lot of hurt and a lot of pain. Uh.
34:54
And when members of our Muslim community came to council and asked us for
35:00
or cease fire at the end of December, December eighteenth, we had heard
35:05
of. We got an email at the end of the week before, like
35:07
on the thirteenth or so. Many of us didn't see that email, and
35:12
so we're surprised to have folks come. Obviously, anybody can come to council
35:16
and ask for anything, but on the eighteenth, when they had asked for
35:20
a resolution, you know, resolutions and letters of support are two different things.
35:25
But we were we try to adhere to the if it is something that
35:30
we are requesting that we don't have any control over, right, we wrote
35:34
a letter to the PSC, a letter, not a resolution, not an
35:37
act of council, but a letter showing our concern about something or an issue
35:42
that might be out of our jurisdiction. We always feel a letter is better
35:45
rather than rather than a resolution. We've kind of always held true to that,
35:50
and so we drafted a letter in support of not only our Muslim community,
35:55
but also our Jewish community. Because the over whelming majority of council twenty
36:01
plus members had signed that letter saying, you know, we feel like this
36:07
is out of our purview, but we understand that members of our community are
36:09
hurting Muslim community Jewish community, and so let's show a letter of support asking
36:15
our federal delegation, right, our senators and our congresswomen, to ask for
36:21
their help in finding a you know, a peaceful resolution in a war that
36:24
has been going on forever. And so we felt that that would be the
36:32
best path forward. I've met and I've talked to members of both our Muslim
36:37
community and Jewish community publicly, privately, and so it's my understanding that they're
36:43
going to ask to come back again the resolution. Just for folks who don't
36:46
know, there was a resolution that was put up and it was tabled by
36:49
the overwhelming majority of council, meaning we've already dealt with We've already addressed this
36:53
through a letter. But they are just a couple of council members that feel
37:00
like we need a resolution passed again. The majority of council disagree with that.
37:07
And so I believe tonight that I don't know this for sure because no
37:13
member of Council has personally called me to ask for this, but that will
37:16
be taken off the table or asked to be taken off of the table,
37:22
which any council member can do, by the way, it's their right to
37:23
do that, and so that that vote will be held tonight among other things.
37:30
I mean, we have a pretty packed agenda at council tonight. We're
37:35
going to be dealing with a lot of important issues of the city and so
37:38
that also is going to be so it's you know, it's going to be
37:40
a long council meeting tonight. But there are other important things like the LIFT
37:45
Center, the Learning, Innovation, Food and Technology Center, which is a
37:50
huge get for the City of Charleston, thirteen million dollar facility. We're going
37:54
to be talking about, you know, our funding and our support through that.
37:58
We were one of the big applicant. To talk about Marshall again it
38:00
is, you know, we're partnering with Marshall University on this great project,
38:06
huge multimillion dollar project on the East End. We've got to get some training
38:10
for our firefighters. We're going to be talking about, you know, streets
38:15
and traffic. You know, it may not be what people think is the
38:17
sexy work, but it's the work in municipal government. Dave, you know
38:21
what it is. You know, paint paint for our roadways, paint potholes,
38:24
I mean, you know things that we're you know, and is economic
38:28
development too, and so many of those things are going to be brought up
38:31
before Council tonight in addition to but you know, I'll just you know,
38:36
I'll say this. It's it is always, it is always okay in this
38:39
administration and always has been for folks to voice their opinions to us. That
38:44
is a okay by all of us, as it should be. But the
38:47
work of the city is going to continue. It must continue because as you
38:52
well know, and having worked in government, you work nights, you work
38:55
weekends, you work holidays, Dave, I've seen you on any of those.
39:00
And we're going to continue to do the work of all people. But
39:04
the job in which that I was voted in, thank you two times to
39:07
do is to make sure that we are saying fiscally sound and that we're keeping
39:12
our eye. We're also doing budgeting right now. So my days right now
39:15
are eaten up by budget meetings because we've got to turn that around. We've
39:20
got to send it to the state because we're required to do that, have
39:22
them you know, you know, submit it to the state, and then
39:27
meeting with all of our department directors, going over every single penny to make
39:31
sure that we're not only funding the departments that need to be funded, but
39:36
also meeting with our directors to say, you know, what what can we
39:38
do and where do we have to tighten our belt. So it's a really,
39:42
really busy time of year for us. It always is, and you
39:49
know, and of course the you know, the folks are at the state
39:52
House as well, so we've been on the phone with senators and delegates just
39:55
asking us questions. Hey, you know, I saw this bill come through.
39:59
What do you think about that? Or you got any advice on this?
40:01
And so our days are also spent, you know, as they should
40:05
be, on the phone with our senators and delegates and representative saying hey,
40:07
I'm looking at this piece is legislation? Is this cool with cities? Is
40:12
this not? And so it's right after the first of the year. It's
40:16
it's a dead sprint where sometimes I think people are like, well, let's
40:20
just after the first of the year. Let's wait a come, It's not.
40:22
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learned murdered in a robbery by a fourteen year old This was an employee or
40:50
a gentleman young man talking about the clerk that from all intents and purposes,
40:54
I mean, I've read all the stories that we did, any other media
40:57
outlets have done, just seemed like a good case. It's senselessly murdered by
41:00
a fourteen year old. Any thoughts on them. As a mother of a
41:06
child who turned from nineteen to twenty on Saturday, I don't know what else
41:12
to say except it's sickening. It's awful. I know that they have.
41:16
We have so many members of our community that are doing outreach to not only
41:22
our youth. You know, every single day you say to my kids,
41:28
and when I say my kids, I mean the kids that live in the
41:30
City of Charleston, because I consider them my kids too, Dave. Every
41:34
day when we open up our doors to our parking rec centers, and it
41:37
may not seem like we're you know, oh, well you've got a you
41:40
know, you got a Jim Amy, You've got a couple of rec centers.
41:43
No it's not a basketball court. No it's not just a baseball field.
41:46
No it's not just a swimming pool. Those are connection points to get
41:51
kids through the door, to put eyeballs on them, to say to them,
41:54
how are you? What can I do for you? So I take
41:58
it very serious, the job of not only keeping our kids safe, but
42:01
also keeping our eyes on kids and trying to help them grow and also to
42:07
troubleshoot with them, their school and their families. This was a really,
42:12
really difficult situation for so many, So many kids in our area are hurting.
42:19
So many kids in our area Dave don't have someone and what we say
42:22
in our park and Rex community and all the municipal government, just one,
42:27
just one kid. Put your sites on one kid to help them, to
42:30
reach out to them, to help empower them, and to troubleshoot with them.
42:35
That's where we need to start, and it needs to start from the
42:37
get go. We can ask our teachers, by the way, child of
42:42
two educators, can't ask our teachers to do everything, by the way,
42:45
can't ask our police to do everything as well. It does take a village.
42:51
It takes everybody in this community to keep our eyeballs on the kids who
42:54
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passer resolution for a ceasefire apparently need reminded that there was a ceasefire until November
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twenty eighth. That's when Hamas ended it by attacking Israeli forces. So these
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people need to contact Camas and demand they in this not Israel. By the
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way, Hamas does represent the Palestinians. They voted Hamas terrorists into their government,
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says a Texter Tech says, how many officers of the Charleston Police Department
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have voluntarily left the force and sought law enforcement employment elsewhere since you became mayor
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now we I'll say this, I don't know. I don't know that number
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off the top of my head, but I'm sure there is There are always
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are officers who are looking at other opportunities that may best fit their professional career,
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their personal career. And I never hold that against them. I know
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that I just sore in six new officers, and I had two officers that
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had left and had come back and won as recently as two weeks ago.
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So they left and came back. Yeah, they left and came back.
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Yeah, they went for other employment and felt, you know again that it
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didn't work out for them this situation, and said can you come back?
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And we said, doors open, come on in. We'd love to have
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you back. This was an officer that was with us for about twelve thirteen
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years, and it just he thought that this might best fit his new situation
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at home. It didn't, and he said, okay, it didn't,
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or can I come back? The answer is yes, absolutely happens. It
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happens. It happens to every department. And that's okay. Well, how's
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the search for a police chief? It's going great. I've done interviews over
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the past couple of weeks, follow up interviews, and I'm still doing those
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this week as well. And as I said, maybe even the last time
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I was on the show, Dave, I'm going to take my time.
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This is a really important decision, and it is amplified when I get calls
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from you either state troopers or chiefs of police of other large cities throughout the
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state of West Virginia, or sheriffs who run sheriff's departments throughout the state of
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West Virginia, saying we support you, we want you to take your time,
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and of course everybody wants to give their recommendation right of Hey, I
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know this person or I know this person, and so I appreciate all of
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those and I always take those calls and happy to as well, because this
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is important. It's a really important position. It's never been done like this
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before. The application was extensive, and the questions that this new police chief
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are unlike any other questions that any other police chief is ever in the history
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of the city of Charleston have ever had to answer. And I'm real proud
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of that. But by the way, when you do that interview process,
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it takes a while. There's no magic wand Okay, I'm gonna pick you.
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Those days are gone. But Dave Allan Shilling five Aya line brights you
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apart by your hometown baseball team, the Charleston Dirty Birds. What's better than
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a dozen roses from Young Floral Company? How about a dozen roses and twelve
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Dirty Birds game tickets delivered personally by the Dirty Birds mascot Dusty. The deal
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is today limited to the first twenty people who sign up. Go to the
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Dirty Birds social media pages or Dirty Birds Baseball doting. Do that? Do
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you do like flowers? Roses? Can you do this stuff like that on
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Valentine's Day? To do that? You've just been married as long as I
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have. We'll been married twenty five years in April. I don't even know
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what twenty five? Is it like silver or is it a papers? What
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is it? As I said earlier minus thirty two in September, I think
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it's aluminum. I'm not I'm not sure. Twelve ounce cans golf clubs.
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I'm kidding. Serious text here said where did the young man get the gun?
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That's under the investigation. I don't. I don't know at this point.
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All right, This week, the Westerninia Auto Show comes to the Coliseum
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Convention Center. I'll have actually Richard Stevens from Steven's Autumn Group is one of
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the big players behind the bringing this down. One of the big auto dealers
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you could get a fun talk about. It's such a fun night. Tomorrow
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we have another big concert announcement over the last couple of weeks. Little Wayne
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coming to town. It's I called him mister Wayne. It's not Bruce Wayne.
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And they said, know Amy is actually his name is mister Carter.
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I'm like, well, he goes by little little little Lil Wayne, not
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little And I also made that mistake. Just asked my listen to a twenty
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year old and a twenty two year old. They love to correct their mother.
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Mom, Sure, Lil Wayne. Yeah. W Interviews Blues Firm Market
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is also February twenty fourth. And this monster truck. I just talked to
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a father this morning. He took his four year old to the monster truck
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show at the Colosseum Convention center of the weekend, and he said, please
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tell me when the next one is. He he literally said in the hallway
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home. He would not shut up in the back of the car. I
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want to go back. I want to go go back. I said,
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leave it to a four year old. It's monster truck. That's like a
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raging tiger party for a four year olds. A lot of pictures posted online
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about that. Of course, we the announcement was made about heart and cheap
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trick music that you and I recognized, Yeah, coming to the Coliseum,
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the convention Center. We just came off restaurant week in Charleston, so there's
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been a whole lot of things going on here. Yeah, there's a whole
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lot of things going on and it's going to continue. You know. Again,
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like we said, it's the beginning of the year. You think,
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okay, we're going to you know, slow roll it in Live on the
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Levee. We also had applications go on that and off the top of my
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head, I think, I think what Tina told me was this is going
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to sound like I'm making this up, but it was like one hundred and
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sixty bands have already submitted one and sixty Yeah, like you had just a
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crazy amount of course, you know, or already where do they go to
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apply? They go to our go to our website. Actually there's a band
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applications or Live on the Levee Charleston dot com. You can go there.
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But you know, so banded applications there and you know the regatta, you
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know, announcements coming soon on. You know who's going to be performing.
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But we're hot and heavy underway in that and it's it's going to be really
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cool. One of the dates of regatta we already know. I mean,
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yeah, it's uh, it's weird because fourth of July falls on a Wednesday.
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I think, so fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, it's like
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that Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and then we'll wrap up at
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like noon on Sunday. So it's gonna be it's gonna be absolutely amazing.
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I want to want to close with this, Mayor. We we talked about
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a restaurant We can I talk to a couple of restaurant owners that were very,
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very pleased with the results. And what about business in downtown Charleston where
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give me give me a state of the state of the city on business in
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thirty seconds if you can, well, well, I'll just say this.
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It's crushing. We're crushing it downtown. And I say we loosely. They
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are. You know, these are folks who have great passion for what they
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do. I don't care if it is and not just downtown, I mean
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West Side and East End folks who have a passion for what they do.
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Everybody from Tony the Tailor to Morgan at Rock City to Kevin at Black Sheep.
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These folks are Chef Paul. They put their passion on to benefit us,
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and so we're thankful for them, all right, may it's always a
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pleasure to have you on the show. By the way, quick text here
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says the last time Cheap Trick was here was the eighty nine Sterning World.
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For God is the texture. Gotta go, hobbies coming next. I'll see
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you tomorrow. Till then, have fun. I Love Somebody by DA nine
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