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11/26/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Students from West Virginia State University, Tony the Tailor, Chuck McGill · The Dave Allen Show

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  Speaker 2: this day before Thanksgiving. Coming up a new director of
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  Speaker 2: always Welcome big Ley Piggy Wiggly Hotline three zero four
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  Speaker 3: Tony B.
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  Speaker 2: Taylor Text three zero four nine three five five zero
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  Speaker 2: zero eight want to tell you about a musical event
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  Speaker 2: happening at West Virginia State University January the thirtieth at
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  Speaker 2: the Wilson Student Unions. Let's start about six here to
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  Speaker 2: talk about it. We've got to Madeline. Is that when
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  Speaker 2: I pronounced that right, Madeline say, Okay, you're on radio,
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  Speaker 2: so you have to say something okay, yes, Okay, you
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  Speaker 2: got Madeline. And we also have Kylie Yes, and we.
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  Speaker 3: Have Tabby Tabby.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So first of all, let everybody to get
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  Speaker 2: to know you, introduce yourselves, tell us what you're studying
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  Speaker 2: at West Virginia State. How'd you get into this ill thing?
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  Speaker 2: Anybody can start, go ahead. I think I think they're
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  Speaker 2: electing you.
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  Speaker 3: So go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Madeline Bailey. I am a double major. I do music,
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  Speaker 5: performance and communications with an emphasis.
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  Speaker 3: In pr Okay.
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  Speaker 5: So I started playing the flue when I was ten
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  Speaker 5: and I've kept with it ever since. And I chose
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  Speaker 5: communications and public relations because I enjoyed aspect of it.
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  Speaker 5: When I was in high school, and I just thought
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  Speaker 5: that planning this gala for the orchestra would kind of
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  Speaker 5: combine the two. So the three of us thought it
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  Speaker 5: would be a good idea, and we kind of stuck
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  Speaker 5: with it ever since.
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  Speaker 2: And that's one of the reasons why you're here, because
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  Speaker 2: you folks reached out to me because you want to
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  Speaker 2: get into the whole pr thing, and and and by
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  Speaker 2: the way, and by the way, just I didn't plan this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm actually drinking out of my West Virginia State coffee
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  Speaker 2: mug today. Oh courtesy was my good friend Eric Cage,
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  Speaker 2: the president out there when he was on the show.
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  Speaker 2: One day, I was drinking out of a Marshall coffee mug.
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  Speaker 2: And because I'm a well I went to hold on Now,
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  Speaker 2: I went to Marshall, okay, and so I was drinking
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  Speaker 2: and he said, he said, uh, you know you need
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  Speaker 2: you need a West Virginia State coffee mug. And the
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  Speaker 2: next time he came in, lo and behole. He comes in,
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  Speaker 2: he hands me a West Virginia.
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  Speaker 3: State Coffee boy fund to suck.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so he brought gifts. You guys didn't bring anything, right,
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  Speaker 2: I brought my presence Okay, your's presence not with a
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  Speaker 2: t right, all right, you're cut off.
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  Speaker 3: You're not going back on again.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, but but but the reason I wanted to bring
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  Speaker 2: up the pr aspect of it, because of part of
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  Speaker 2: what you're doing is is you need to get the
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  Speaker 2: word out, so you contact you folks kind attacked me
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  Speaker 2: and so we'd like to come on and talk about
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  Speaker 2: this big event. So talk about your and I'll get
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  Speaker 2: to the other two. I was just kidding, and talk
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  Speaker 2: about your your musical experience when you start playing the flute.
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  Speaker 3: What age I.
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  Speaker 5: Started playing the flute to ten? I was blessed because
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  Speaker 5: my parents let me have private lessons growing up. And
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  Speaker 5: I always just thought the flu was a very cool instrum.
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  Speaker 3: I'll say, what was it about the flute.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, it just I always loved it. I
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  Speaker 5: always heard it in movies and things. And you always
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  Speaker 5: saw people playing the flute the wrong way.
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  Speaker 3: Usually in movies. It's so play it the right way.
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  Speaker 2: They always do in movies, whether it's no matter what
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  Speaker 2: the instrument is, guitar or whatever. My dad was a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good guitarist, and it would kill him watching movies
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  Speaker 2: when people were playing guitar, and they never moved their hands,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they just especially on the neck of the guitar, like.
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  Speaker 3: No, stop that stop that. So all right, and I
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  Speaker 3: introduce yourself.
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  Speaker 6: Well, my name's Kylie Hannah and I am a little
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  Speaker 6: bit oven underachiever. So I'm just a communication But I
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  Speaker 6: have been involved with music my entire life. I've been
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  Speaker 6: singing for as long as I can remember. I play
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  Speaker 6: a little guitar, not anything to shake a stick at.
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  Speaker 6: But I am a part of our school's jazz band,
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  Speaker 6: and our jazz band's going to be performing at our gala.
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  Speaker 6: And it's just a really, really amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Band.
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  Speaker 6: I mean Scott Woodard puts it together and he absolutely
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  Speaker 6: rocks it. I mean we have people who are students,
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  Speaker 6: we have community members, we have professionals all in this band,
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  Speaker 6: just like the orchestra, and it's just really an amazing
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  Speaker 6: opportunity for people to grow, to learn, to have fun,
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  Speaker 6: let loose a little bit, and it's just a really
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  Speaker 6: cool environment and I've enjoyed getting to be a part
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  Speaker 6: of it. So I just decided in my free time
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  Speaker 6: I was going to be a part of something musical
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  Speaker 6: on campus and that was that. And I've been best
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  Speaker 6: friends with Maddie since high school.
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  Speaker 2: So where would you guys go to high school?
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  Speaker 6: We're both homeschooled.
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  Speaker 3: Actually okay, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you went let's say so you went to
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  Speaker 2: the same room in the same house.
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  Speaker 6: No, no, we did this. We did the same curriculum.
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  Speaker 6: That such a yeah, okay, but yeah, I love pr
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  Speaker 6: and so I've really really enjoyed getting to put the
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  Speaker 6: gala on and do a lot of the social media
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  Speaker 6: we have. We're posting currently on two social media sites,
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  Speaker 6: Facebook and Instagram, and we just are really enjoying getting
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  Speaker 6: to put all of it together. We've been filming interviews
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  Speaker 6: with all of the orchestra members and it's just been awesome.
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  Speaker 2: All right, and you said you were a singer. What's
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  Speaker 2: your favorite genre? What do you sing?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I'm a little biased, but jazz.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, that's all right.
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  Speaker 6: I definitely love anything Ella Fitzgerald, anything that can cold.
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  Speaker 2: The classics, yes, classic. I just I just got into
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  Speaker 2: jazz a couple of years ago. I'm a person that
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  Speaker 2: loves music of all kinds, and I just got into
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  Speaker 2: jazz a couple of years ago. And my favorite is
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  Speaker 2: not any of those. John Coltrane. I'm a huge Coltrane fan.
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  Speaker 6: Love.
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  Speaker 3: I love Coltrane, all.
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  Speaker 2: Right, and you are I'm Tabby, all right, Tabby, and
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  Speaker 2: tell us about you.
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  Speaker 7: I'm a music performance major and a communications miner.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: I play the trumpet. I started playing the trumpet when
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  Speaker 7: I was in fourth grade. And I've always loved music.
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  Speaker 7: So getting to put on an event like this and
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  Speaker 7: be in college for music it it's really it's been
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  Speaker 7: really fun, and it's been a really good experience, and
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  Speaker 7: I'm excited for this gala. It's gonna be fun, all right.
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  Speaker 2: And I will say something about this about the communications
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  Speaker 2: program and all of the curriculum. You know that state
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  Speaker 2: is amazing, but the communications program is really good. And
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  Speaker 2: we've had a lot of folks that have come through
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  Speaker 2: here that were part of that program. Hollywood. Jeff Patty,
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  Speaker 2: who produced this show for many years. You know, you
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  Speaker 2: guys know Jeff. Yeah, well, Jeff, of course, he works
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  Speaker 2: on our sister station is ninety eight seven The Mountain
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  Speaker 2: and also KWS on the on the weekends. And Jeff
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  Speaker 2: and I have done each other for a number of years.
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  Speaker 2: I hope he's not listening right because I'm gonna give
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  Speaker 2: him a compliment. Jeff's class act.
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  Speaker 3: He's a good dude.
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  Speaker 2: I I I'm lucky to have him as a friend
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  Speaker 2: and as a coworker too. But don't ever tell him
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  Speaker 2: I said that. All right, doing, all right, let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about the event. Let's talk about the event. It's January
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  Speaker 2: the what thirtieth? January thirtieth, all right? And what are
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  Speaker 2: people if they come out for? What are they going
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  Speaker 2: to hear? What are they going to experience that night?
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  Speaker 5: So we are having a bunch of things. We're having
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  Speaker 5: live music by the jazz band. You'll hear her saying
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  Speaker 5: she's very modest, but she has a gorgeous voice, and
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  Speaker 5: she's not trained, she's she's got a gorgeous voice. So
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  Speaker 5: you'll hear her saying, we have a bunch of people singing.
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  Speaker 5: Our jazz band is incredible. We're going to have some
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  Speaker 5: orchestra groups performed. This is the celebration of the ten
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  Speaker 5: years of the orchestra, so we're wanting to honor all
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  Speaker 5: the hard work that people have put in. We're going
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  Speaker 5: to have food for everybody and a silent auction, and
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  Speaker 5: we're going to have live dancing and live music and
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  Speaker 5: we'll have some recorded music too, and for we'll have
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  Speaker 5: a silent auction for people with a bunch of things
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  Speaker 5: we can't let people know.
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  Speaker 3: That's part of the part of the fun.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll have a little surprise for some people when
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  Speaker 5: they get there. And we just want to have a
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  Speaker 5: good time of people.
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  Speaker 2: And it says it's a masquerade ball, tell you we're
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  Speaker 2: doing the whole.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so you can't come in unless you have a mask.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, and we're just one get.
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  Speaker 3: A mask like that?
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  Speaker 6: Well Amazon, you can get a mask on Amazon co Bucks.
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  Speaker 6: I don't care what kind of mask you show up and.
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  Speaker 3: Just hardcore about it.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 6: Well, we're going to have a photo booth like a
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  Speaker 6: genuine red carpet so that people can take photos. It's
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  Speaker 6: not going to be in vain, so you know, show
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  Speaker 6: up looking absolutely stellar because your photo is going to
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  Speaker 6: be taken.
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  Speaker 3: Whether you like, whether you want it or not. Right,
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  Speaker 3: So that's what you're saying.
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  Speaker 2: Where can people get tickets online?
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  Speaker 6: So we have we have links that are being posted
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  Speaker 6: on all of those social media's. We have invites being
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  Speaker 6: sent out on Facebook. You can register online RSVP.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, we have an event on Facebook. It's combined
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  Speaker 5: with the WSU Music on Facebook and the West Vinia
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  Speaker 5: State Orchestra on Facebook, and then the link is online
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  Speaker 5: through the West Vinia State Foundation.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, all right, it's listed as the name of the event.
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  Speaker 2: that somebody text it okay, it says kids really should
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  Speaker 2: get into music and marching band. Those were the best
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  Speaker 2: times I had in junior high and high school football games,
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  Speaker 2: conference parades, field show competitions. They would be surprised at
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  Speaker 2: how many other favorite celebs were band geeks, including our
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  Speaker 2: own Jennifer Garner, who played saxophone and the GW Patriots
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  Speaker 2: marching band and she still plays.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely I totally agree. I think that marching band is
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  Speaker 6: a really really cool thing. Ours is kind of small,
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  Speaker 6: but we lead it with pride and we really really
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  Speaker 6: show up for our football games. We have a pet
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  Speaker 6: band going on for basketball games. I think that's getting started.
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  Speaker 6: So we have a relatively small school and with that
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  Speaker 6: comes sometimes not a whole lot of interest in certain
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  Speaker 6: aspects because people just don't know that it's going on.
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  Speaker 6: And so I think that's why as communication majors, we
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  Speaker 6: tend to feel a little like, oh, but there's so
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  Speaker 6: many things going on, how do people not know about this?
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  Speaker 6: And so we try to create that movement in the
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  Speaker 6: student body so that people know that these things are
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  Speaker 6: going on, because a lot of people they just don't
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  Speaker 6: understand that we've got a jazz band. We have a
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  Speaker 6: pet band, we have a marching band, we have an orchestra,
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  Speaker 6: we have we had a show band there for a
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  Speaker 6: little bit, and I was a part of that as well.
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  Speaker 6: And the only difference between jazz band and show band
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  Speaker 6: was that show band had a real, real tall black
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  Speaker 6: dude in front of it. And his name is Phil Washington,
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  Speaker 6: and he oh swag for days.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody knows Phil, yes, and Phil Washington is he's a gay.
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  Speaker 2: But you see him on TV doing the lottery numbers
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  Speaker 2: all the time, and he's very, very accomplished.
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  Speaker 3: What do you guys hope to do? I'm gonna ask.
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  Speaker 2: Him a personal question of all three. What do you
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  Speaker 2: hope to do after graduation? We'll start with you, what
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  Speaker 2: do you what do you do? You know which will
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  Speaker 2: do after graduation?
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  Speaker 7: I'd like to go into music marketing.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, all right, what about you?
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  Speaker 6: Honestly I want to dabble in just about anything I
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  Speaker 6: can get my hands in that's communications related. So I
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  Speaker 6: really love broadcasting.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I'm taking notes here, by the way, just so you know,
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  Speaker 2: come down and talk to this young lady, or talk
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  Speaker 2: to all three of them, but go ahead.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm sorry, yeah, no, you're fine. I but broadcasting radio.
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  Speaker 6: I genuinely, really, really love anything PR related, so I
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  Speaker 6: think it would be so fun to uh a project,
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  Speaker 6: manage and to put my hands into something that I
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  Speaker 6: can really feel good about and you know, bigger causes
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  Speaker 6: and something like that.
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  Speaker 3: So what about you.
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  Speaker 5: I am on the same lads these too. I've looked
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  Speaker 5: into music marketing as well. But I love doing all
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  Speaker 5: of the aspects of communications. I work for sports information
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  Speaker 5: right now and I'm learning broadcasting and how to do
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  Speaker 5: the audio and journalistic aspects of it.
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  Speaker 2: Stephanie Poly is our producer and she can help with that.
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  Speaker 3: Too, just so you know, yeah, I enjoy all of it.
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  Speaker 2: But she went to Marshall, is that okay? I guess
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  Speaker 2: all right, are gonna do? I'll let it slide all right.
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  Speaker 3: Again, I thought I.
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  Speaker 2: Turned your microphone off, all right, so appreciate all three
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  Speaker 2: of you been there. Give us the dates of the
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  Speaker 2: concert again. We'll have you on before then.
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  Speaker 3: But give it.
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  Speaker 2: Give us the dates of the big event again.
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  Speaker 5: January thirtieth, twenty twenty six and.
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  Speaker 2: Taket servailable at on your social media. Appreciate all three
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  Speaker 2: of you being here.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks a lot, Thank.
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  Speaker 2: You, And I'm serious, I think Jenkins is going to
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  Speaker 2: come down and talk to you three about about hiring today.
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  Speaker 2: So you may or not be at the concert. You
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  Speaker 3: Want to welcome in now our good friend.
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  Speaker 2: Tony the Taylor.
• 17:20
  Speaker 11: How you doing, man, Good morning, happy thanksgiving them.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Dave backed that microphone down a little bit because I
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: you know, it's a couple of those communications.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: Major.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: We're a little soft speaking. We'll work on that, but not.
• 17:29
  Speaker 11: You, not me, not so spoken.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: He heard you, you know, coming up out of South
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Hills a minute ago. All right, so small Business Saturday,
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: and listeners know my opinions on this. We should always
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: shop small and locally when possible. Uh. But we'll get
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: in that a little bit later on. Tony, you have
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: been a big part of Small Business Saturday for some time.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: You were telling me a story on the phone yesterday.
• 17:52
  Speaker 11: Twenty ten, we were the only store in West Virginia
• 17:55
  Speaker 11: to participate in Small Business Saturday. And it's an augur
• 17:58
  Speaker 11: ye of twenty ten, and then it's slowly picked up
• 18:01
  Speaker 11: and then it's become a big thing. Like Black Friday.
• 18:04
  Speaker 11: We don't participate in Black Friday. We give our employees
• 18:07
  Speaker 11: that day off. Givema today rest because from Black from
• 18:11
  Speaker 11: Small vis A Saturday until Christmas Eve.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: It's full throttle to.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Let the roll aids kick in on the on the
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: day after. Well, and let's be honest, I mean, Black
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Friday is not the big deal that it used to
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: be like twenty years ago.
• 18:23
  Speaker 11: Right, There's no when I was Cabby's Patch kids and
• 18:28
  Speaker 11: what you know, there's different crazy toys that I bought
• 18:30
  Speaker 11: when my kids were young. Yeah, but yeah, so there's
• 18:33
  Speaker 11: nothing really like that, and there's no more. I mean,
• 18:35
  Speaker 11: one hundred dollars television is like a normal price.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Now, yeah, yeah, but but I mean I just remember,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: you know, what it used to be like, and I
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: was always working, so I you know, doing it one
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: doring in the morning show. My Black Friday was me
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: being on the air at you know, five point thirty
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: in the morning. But I can remember, you know, the
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: news reports how it used to be wild, and it's
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: not that way anymore. But small Bustus Saturday has just
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: continued to get bigger and big. I had the mayor
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: of Hurricane on the show on Monday, and then Hurricane
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: is a very very small town.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Okay, they go all out for it.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, you can't walk down the streets of Hurricane
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: for their you know, eight nine businesses that they have,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: and of course the Valley parks got stuff going on
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: and throughout Tays Valley, I know South Charleston saying everybody's
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: got stuff's a big deal.
• 19:16
  Speaker 11: And it's the second largest volume day in the Christmas season.
• 19:20
  Speaker 11: The biggest is always and always has been the Saturday
• 19:24
  Speaker 11: before Christmas, no matter where it falls with Christmas. Sometimes
• 19:27
  Speaker 11: it's Christmas Eve that still be the biggest retail day.
• 19:31
  Speaker 11: And the Christmas season again, it'st a short window.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: This year.
• 19:34
  Speaker 11: We only have four saturdays to get it done this year,
• 19:39
  Speaker 11: two years back to back, so retail sales will reflect
• 19:42
  Speaker 11: that when they report them. Then sometimes we get five weeks.
• 19:46
  Speaker 11: Generally it depends just when Thanksgiving falls.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: And here's here's one of the knocks that I hear
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: about Charleston. There's nowhere to shop, there's nowhere.
• 19:56
  Speaker 11: To Those are the people who never come to Charleston.
• 19:59
  Speaker 11: They I mean, they obviously don't. On my street. I'm
• 20:01
  Speaker 11: on a corner of Hale in Virginia. If you walk
• 20:04
  Speaker 11: two blocks north, there's every storefront is filled and full
• 20:09
  Speaker 11: of great little shops and restaurants. Capitol Street is not
• 20:12
  Speaker 11: a big retail center, but there's some great eateries there.
• 20:14
  Speaker 11: There's a couple of retail stores there. There are still
• 20:18
  Speaker 11: a couple of stores left in the mall here. But
• 20:20
  Speaker 11: then also you go just right up the hill there
• 20:23
  Speaker 11: and you have Bridge Road Shopping. Are great specialty stores
• 20:26
  Speaker 11: up there, fantastic. It's the way of retailing nowadays is
• 20:30
  Speaker 11: there's a mixture of online, small shopping areas and then
• 20:34
  Speaker 11: larger retail areas like South Ridge which is huge. Everybody
• 20:38
  Speaker 11: talks you know the hold the mall in Huntington, Well,
• 20:40
  Speaker 11: Huntington Mall wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the five
• 20:43
  Speaker 11: times as many stores that are on out parcels and
• 20:45
  Speaker 11: are surrounding it. It's just the way it is. People
• 20:48
  Speaker 11: just don't shop at enclosed malls anymore, just as fact.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: And the interesting thing about that to me and Ian
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: we're talking to Tony the Taylor Paranzino about small business Saturday.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: The interesting thing about that is is that you know,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: you and I are roughly okay, no, you're a lot
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: older than me, but we remember the heydays of the
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: malls and it didn't have to be the town, so
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: it could be any mall across America and going to
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: the mall Fast Times at Ridgemont High. You know which
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: the movie that changed my life by the way, uh
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: I was actually yeah, well bb Kate's pool scene. That's
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: all I got to say about that single handedly propelled
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: me into puberty. But I but I will say that
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: the days of going People still go to malls, Okay,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: they still do. However, the bigger we've gotten, the smaller
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: we've gotten, because there's people that still love to go
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: to these small shops, just like the ones you mentioned
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: in Charleston. And you do incredible business down there, but
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: you're still considered small business obviously, but you but you're
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: one though, and there are several others that have kind
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: of bridged that gap between Okay, you can still come
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: in and just look around, but you also do things online.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: You also do things. You can do trunk shows and
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: things of that nature. So I think the successful business
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: in twenties twenty five tony about to be twenty twenty
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: six has got to kind of be a marriage of
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: all of them.
• 22:03
  Speaker 11: You have to be omni channel. If you're in retail,
• 22:05
  Speaker 11: no matter what size, I'm small to large. If you
• 22:07
  Speaker 11: have no internet presence, you're not in business. We have
• 22:11
  Speaker 11: a very robust online store and ship all over the
• 22:14
  Speaker 11: country eight or nine packages a day. We're one of
• 22:19
  Speaker 11: the larger, probably single store online retailers in the country
• 22:23
  Speaker 11: for men's clothing. I sold three Oxford suits online ship
• 22:27
  Speaker 11: to Massachusetts, one went to Pennsylvania.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: And each are people that people. You need to realize.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: These are people that in many cases don't have any
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: ties to this area. They're not from Charleston and said, well,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: I still want to shop with Tony or whatever. The
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: people that just did the the Google machine search engine
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: and found.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: You, you know.
• 22:42
  Speaker 11: And what's amusing to me sometimes is I recognize some
• 22:44
  Speaker 11: of the names I'm sending to. There'll be celebrities, there'll
• 22:48
  Speaker 11: be business type you I mean, other than me, other
• 22:50
  Speaker 11: than well, yeah, well you walk.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: In the store.
• 22:53
  Speaker 11: Okay, that's truely, that's true with your on tarage.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah.
• 22:56
  Speaker 11: But so it's just fascinating to me. But that's that's
• 22:59
  Speaker 11: the way it is, and it's it's fun and it
• 23:01
  Speaker 11: keeps us going, I mean, it really does. But again,
• 23:04
  Speaker 11: it used to be more than our own, than our
• 23:07
  Speaker 11: in store business, and now our in store business has
• 23:10
  Speaker 11: surpass because Charleston. Again, people are coming here. We have
• 23:13
  Speaker 11: to collect your data, have people moving here all the time,
• 23:17
  Speaker 11: and these are the people you want moving here, professionals
• 23:19
  Speaker 11: and it's fantastic and people can say no. But the
• 23:23
  Speaker 11: housing situation reflects that there's a shortage of houses. There's
• 23:27
  Speaker 11: sorties of reason there's a shortage of house. Yeah, and
• 23:29
  Speaker 11: people are moving here. And it's not just Charleston. I
• 23:31
  Speaker 11: mean it goes on down through the valley. Well, the
• 23:33
  Speaker 11: whole thing is Charleston. Yeah, people, this border thing is
• 23:36
  Speaker 11: going across the board, you know. I mean Charleston has
• 23:38
  Speaker 11: forty eight thousand people, then you cross over the river
• 23:41
  Speaker 11: and you got another thirty thousand added to they're really
• 23:44
  Speaker 11: are trading area is about six hundred and fifty thousand people.
• 23:48
  Speaker 11: Is our trading right now, which is the Metro Valley
• 23:51
  Speaker 11: and Logan we go to Pikeville. That's that's pretty much
• 23:54
  Speaker 11: if you're in retail that you're trading right.
• 23:56
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• 24:11
  Speaker 2: business Saturday look like for Tony the Taylor.
• 24:13
  Speaker 11: We have great promotions again. Quarter zips are hot. That's
• 24:16
  Speaker 11: the hot item. That's the that's the cabbage patch kid
• 24:19
  Speaker 11: appearently of Christmas twenty twenty.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: But you're not gonna get a kidney injured trying to
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: find one.
• 24:25
  Speaker 11: We're doing a buy one, get one free on all
• 24:27
  Speaker 11: sweaters that day in store only on that but we
• 24:30
  Speaker 11: have outer wear at half price. We have great selection
• 24:32
  Speaker 11: of shoes. Got a special selection of Johnson and Murphy's
• 24:35
  Speaker 11: that are seventy nine ninety nine for a dress roof
• 24:37
  Speaker 11: you need a nice banner black dress jew some other
• 24:41
  Speaker 11: great deals going on. You can check our website at
• 24:44
  Speaker 11: Bestmaster Taylor dot com for that, and then we're ready
• 24:49
  Speaker 11: to go. Don't forget to come downtown for Holly Jolly
• 24:51
  Speaker 11: Browny on Friday of art Walk. We are not open
• 24:54
  Speaker 11: for this, but so I can go out and actually
• 24:56
  Speaker 11: enjoy it. Some great events we the holiday shopping Village
• 25:01
  Speaker 11: going on Slack Plaza and you know, don't forget to
• 25:04
  Speaker 11: stop in my buddy at Sam's Uptown for a nice
• 25:07
  Speaker 11: great meal and a cocktail and walk around pod. It
• 25:10
  Speaker 11: will be in effect and it would be a great time.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: And again, you know, I had you on to talk
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: about your business because you're, you know, kind of up
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: to sponsored this show. But I also wanted you to
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: hit on the other businesses, which you've done, because it's
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: not just it's not just the Tony the Taylor Show.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: I mean everybody else is everybody. Everybody's taking part of it.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: And again that vibrant downtown and I think people kind
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: of you know, and Holly Jolly Brawley has been such
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: a big part of that over the last you know,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: the last holiday seas.
• 25:35
  Speaker 11: I have to tell you Kevin Madison and Morgan Morrison
• 25:37
  Speaker 11: they work their tails off year round for this event
• 25:42
  Speaker 11: and every year they make it better and better and better.
• 25:44
  Speaker 11: And I'm pumped for the Drone show. The last year
• 25:47
  Speaker 11: was good. This year it's going to be spectacular.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we had a text here for you that says, uh,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: how do you know measurements are accurate if you're going
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: by what someone posts on an online order.
• 25:58
  Speaker 11: Well, most things we sell online are belts, shoes, sports wear,
• 26:04
  Speaker 11: very rarely we get things that we we don't do
• 26:07
  Speaker 11: anything custom made online except for belts. We have custom
• 26:09
  Speaker 11: belts online and we call them and that's the way
• 26:13
  Speaker 11: it is, or I will go visit them. Most we
• 26:16
  Speaker 11: don't really sell custom shirts online. That's in it's impossible
• 26:19
  Speaker 11: to do uh accurately.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Well. And the great thing I think about about your
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: store is is people can go in there and they
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: can shop and not you know, you guys are experts.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: You and Ryan, you know you do a great job.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: And you go in and you know, okay, I gotta
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: I got a formal event coming up.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: Help me.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: And I know I've hung out at your store enough
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: to know that that you get a lot of that
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: people coming in or put somebody bringing a kid in
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: for a Christmas formal or something like that.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: And and and they don't know. What they don't know
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: is that they.
• 26:51
  Speaker 11: Don't even weddings. You know, we do three or four
• 26:54
  Speaker 11: weddings weekend, which which is a huge business. We're probably
• 26:59
  Speaker 11: the largest Tuxiter place. And the thing, we're cheaper than
• 27:02
  Speaker 11: everybody else, and we do it better than everybody else.
• 27:05
  Speaker 11: So it's it's uh, you know, it's just fun. And
• 27:08
  Speaker 11: we interview you first, we just want to give you something.
• 27:10
  Speaker 11: We want to make sure you look good and feel
• 27:12
  Speaker 11: good when you leave. And am sure event that's important.
• 27:16
  Speaker 11: Look good and feel good.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Now you're a Charleston guy, I mean born, born, in bred,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: and like what I always said, you're born and bred.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: When you die, you'll be Charleston dead. But uh, talk
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: about people always want to look back on any town
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Tony and they all want to say, well, this I
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: remember how it how it used to be.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: And that's okay.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: People have a tendency to look back through rose colored
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: glasses sometimes, you know, and it's not always like It's
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: like with music, you know, on the music of the
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: eighties was the best of all.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: It really was, really was.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: I mean we but we look about it and you know,
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: but but but but talk about what it was like
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: and there's still a lot of positive things going on.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: But talk about growing up in Charleston East End kid,
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: and what what what Charleston was was like. And my
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: point is not to say it was better then than
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: it is now. I'm just saying it's just different.
• 28:01
  Speaker 11: It's just different. It's just the way it is. I
• 28:02
  Speaker 11: mean again, and my dad started the store in nineteen
• 28:06
  Speaker 11: seventy four and I had to go to work. I
• 28:08
  Speaker 11: was nine years old, and downtown was thriving. It was busy,
• 28:12
  Speaker 11: and it's where everything wasn't as like every downtown in
• 28:14
  Speaker 11: America was like that. And then the mall was built,
• 28:18
  Speaker 11: and Charleston was kind of on the forefront of building
• 28:20
  Speaker 11: them all downtown rather than out in the outskirts, which
• 28:23
  Speaker 11: sucked down life out of downtown. Well, this mall did
• 28:26
  Speaker 11: suck the life out of downtown just four or five
• 28:29
  Speaker 11: blocks away. However, we stayed downtown because we were downtown.
• 28:35
  Speaker 11: Store men don't go to shopping malls. And we thrived
• 28:39
  Speaker 11: and thrived and grew and grew and grew. And then
• 28:42
  Speaker 11: investment came downtown professionals building these buildings rehaving them, which
• 28:47
  Speaker 11: puts people down there. And then what happens. Restaurants open
• 28:51
  Speaker 11: up and service stores open up, and it's just a
• 28:54
  Speaker 11: part of retailing. Then mall started to decline in the
• 28:57
  Speaker 11: late nineties. It's just the reality of it all over America,
• 29:01
  Speaker 11: not just in Charleston. And then strips shopping centers started
• 29:05
  Speaker 11: opening up on the outskirts. If you go to Columbus right, Oh,
• 29:09
  Speaker 11: I go to go to Easton and go to Columbus.
• 29:11
  Speaker 11: That's not an indoor mall, it's an outdoor mall. And
• 29:14
  Speaker 11: the people who owned the Town Center when they sold
• 29:17
  Speaker 11: their portfolio, except for the Town Center because it was
• 29:19
  Speaker 11: heavily in debt. The group of the Australian Big Mall group,
• 29:23
  Speaker 11: every mall they bought, of the twenty four that twenty
• 29:26
  Speaker 11: five malls of twenty four they bought, they tore them
• 29:28
  Speaker 11: all down and turn them into outdoor shopping many downtowns basically,
• 29:33
  Speaker 11: And that's just the way it is. It's all over
• 29:35
  Speaker 11: the country. The Internet really, you know, I might have
• 29:39
  Speaker 11: hurt malls a little bit. However, what we see now
• 29:43
  Speaker 11: is people will shop on our store locally on the
• 29:48
  Speaker 11: internet and then come and pick it up in the
• 29:50
  Speaker 11: store and then augment their purchase. And a lot of
• 29:54
  Speaker 11: larger retailers are seeing that. If you're paying attention and
• 29:57
  Speaker 11: reading like the Wall Street Journal about retailing.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Well, and you're a person that is never shy to
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: give opinions, so I'm gonna I'm gonna ask you your
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: opinion of the town Center, the current State town Center.
• 30:10
  Speaker 11: Yeah, it is sad to me. What the other way
• 30:14
  Speaker 11: it will ever work? It just needs to be leveled
• 30:16
  Speaker 11: and rebuilt into an entertainment and arts district. You're right
• 30:20
  Speaker 11: beside one hundred million dollar facility. You need restaurants, you
• 30:25
  Speaker 11: need entertainment style stores. That's the only way I work.
• 30:29
  Speaker 11: People who want to buy and have all these ideas,
• 30:31
  Speaker 11: they're just clueless to retail. They have zero idea what
• 30:34
  Speaker 11: they're doing. We're thinking about. I like people who think
• 30:36
  Speaker 11: about it, but again their ideas are just shot.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, it was originally, you know, and this has
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: gone back and forth. We've had a commissioner Silango and
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: the mayor and others on to talk about this that
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: originally we talked about taking the town Center and you know,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: making it into an aquatic center, and then the funding
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: you know, kind of went away. And that's still it's
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: still got something's still going to happen there. But you
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: got to understand that that mall is owned by a
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: private company as it stands right now, and that private company,
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: as long as they're paying their taxes and as long
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: as they're not, there's no you know, there's not any
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: major issues there. Not really a lot of people can do.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: I don't understand their business model. They've done this in
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: other places. The whole group is purchased malls and and
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: let them and just let them decline. That's what they
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: do for tax reasons. I suppose I don't know, and
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: I say that to say, I agree with you one
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: hundred percent. I am a supporter of something for that mall.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: That's not I mean.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: And these people that.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Say, Tony, well, if we just put a blank in there,
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: it was David Busters. Uh, you know, God Blest, one
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: of my former producers. If they just put a David Busters,
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: they saved them all. If we just put a you
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: know whatever. No, not one store is not going to
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: save them all. It's not about it needs to be
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: an entire, an entire entertainment complex. Because it's okay level.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: But when you have these people that come in for
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: these big events like at It Shiney and whatever. They
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: may play a game at six o'clock on a Friday
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: night and not play another one till one o'clock on Sunday, Well,
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: what are they gonna do.
• 32:02
  Speaker 11: They're not gonna sit in the hotel room. They got
• 32:04
  Speaker 11: to have something. Come down to Tony the Taylor we do.
• 32:06
  Speaker 11: We get tons, exactly tons of direct business from these
• 32:10
  Speaker 11: soccer tournaments and softball tournaments and these large youth sports.
• 32:15
  Speaker 11: If I may talk about the sports complex real quick,
• 32:17
  Speaker 11: We're we're just waiting on a federal funding. We are
• 32:20
  Speaker 11: waiting Shelley Moore and at the time Senator Mansion. We
• 32:23
  Speaker 11: have an ear mark, and these guys in Washington can't
• 32:26
  Speaker 11: get their stuff together and to get a budget done.
• 32:29
  Speaker 11: And when it's done, the earmark will pop up and
• 32:31
  Speaker 11: we will get it and then we can finish. We've
• 32:33
  Speaker 11: done our part. The city of Charleston in the county
• 32:35
  Speaker 11: has done their part, and we're just waiting for your
• 32:38
  Speaker 11: congress people who are douless to do their part and
• 32:43
  Speaker 11: that then they we'll move forward. These things just aren't
• 32:46
  Speaker 11: built overnight. In the Aquatic Center, there's a reason they're
• 32:52
  Speaker 11: all nonprofit because they are abhorribly expensive and the maintenance
• 32:55
  Speaker 11: on them is out of control. Can see that and
• 32:57
  Speaker 11: every private one has obviously. I mean, just just do
• 33:00
  Speaker 11: a little reading and research. There's money pits because again
• 33:05
  Speaker 11: you're dealing with water. I think it'd be great, but
• 33:08
  Speaker 11: who's going to pay for it? Are you willing to pay?
• 33:09
  Speaker 11: Are you willing to pay more taxes to have that?
• 33:14
  Speaker 11: And nobody is they're not.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: He's never shied with opinions. That's one of the reason
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: why you and I get along so well. I think.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: All right, tell us, let's recap the small business Saturday again.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Your business is going to be closed tomorrow and Friday.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Will open up on Saturday. But there's a lot of
• 33:27
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  Speaker 11: Seconds, forty four seconds. We have a Black Friday art
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• 33:44
  Speaker 11: the meters on Saturday. Also, I want to mention we're
• 33:47
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  Speaker 11: December fourth, a week from Thursday. It's a huge event,
• 33:53
  Speaker 11: great deals, and I appreciate you having me on here day.
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  Speaker 2: So what you're saying is you're going to suck more
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  Speaker 2: my money out of my pocket?
• 34:01
  Speaker 11: Right, Actually, stopped by payroll and there's four check to me.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Well, you know you all right, I appreciate it. TEXTA
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: says weight You both said people are coming here to shop,
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: but we can't support them all.
• 34:17
  Speaker 11: Correct, because stores don't are especially stores don't located in malls.
• 34:21
  Speaker 11: That's right. But your business is good, that's huge. I
• 34:25
  Speaker 11: mean it grows every year. It grows every year. We're
• 34:28
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• 34:31
  Speaker 3: Okay, have you back on again soon? You behaved yourself?
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  Speaker 3: Have no delay on?
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Oh no, I told you this morning. We started that
• 34:40
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• 34:42
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the show. Fifteen minutes away from ten.
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  Speaker 2: Text says Easton does have an indoor section. That's right,
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: they do, and we appreciate that. Tony was talking about
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: Easton up in Columbus that there is an indoor section,
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: but the majority of it is outdoors.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: I would think.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Text says, as a business owner, don't get political. You
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: saw what going on one way did to Budweiser a
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: few years ago. Keep your political views to yourself. Well,
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: appreciate the text. No, Tony does too, But you just
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: don't know Tony the Taylor.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: Uh just and I say that at the best possible way.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Didn't the public vote on an aquatic center put that
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: in the mall like promise?
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: Well, no, they did not. Texas.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: How many other men's stores are in two hundred miles
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: with Charleston and large in terms of sales, square footage,
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: spirit opinion. Well, let's see, I'm gonna say, within two
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: hundred miles of Charleston, I can name off the top
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: of my head.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: At least.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: At least fifteen, at least fifteen, I'm saying, I'm off
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: the top of my head at least fifteen.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: I know Tony's got a.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: List, because you know he does things like that, so
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: we'll kind of get you about fifteen, I would say,
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: But day Allen, that's just And if Tony's if if Tony,
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• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Chuck McGill's name, but he joined us right now.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: Good morning, sir, welcome to the show. Good morning.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Your name is certainly familiar to those of us. Run here,
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: but give those who may not know who you are,
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: give us your background.
• 39:17
  Speaker 14: Sure, born and raised in Charleston. Grew up, I guess
• 39:20
  Speaker 14: the first in South Charleston, then the West side, and
• 39:23
  Speaker 14: then I'm an Eastern Connall County product. Roots du last
• 39:27
  Speaker 14: class of DuPont High School. We shut it down.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: Okay, they said, we're done.
• 39:31
  Speaker 14: I guess that's it. So yeah, so I've my roots
• 39:35
  Speaker 14: are in Charleston. We came back in two thousand and nine.
• 39:37
  Speaker 14: My wife is from Pittsburgh and she came back with you.
• 39:39
  Speaker 14: We had our son here, worked at the Charleston Daily
• 39:41
  Speaker 14: mel then when the Gazette and Daily Mail merged, was
• 39:45
  Speaker 14: the sports editor there, and then spent my last ten
• 39:48
  Speaker 14: years in collegiate athletics, first at Marshall University and for
• 39:51
  Speaker 14: the past fifteen months at the Mountain East Conference. So
• 39:53
  Speaker 14: I've been at the Division one, Division two level of
• 39:55
  Speaker 14: college athletics. So very non linear journey here. But I'm
• 40:00
  Speaker 14: back to you know, back home, you know. And uh,
• 40:03
  Speaker 14: I grew up running around Plaza East and going to
• 40:06
  Speaker 14: Capital Market when it was still a recycling facility, like
• 40:09
  Speaker 14: you know, so you know, I understand the history there
• 40:12
  Speaker 14: and the tradition and the nostalgia that comes with it.
• 40:15
  Speaker 14: And when I saw it, you know, I just I
• 40:17
  Speaker 14: went after it with Gusto.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: What was it that made that made it appealing to you?
• 40:21
  Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean the the the you know, we we
• 40:24
  Speaker 14: we took my son there when he was you know,
• 40:27
  Speaker 14: when he was a toddler, and I you know, I think,
• 40:32
  Speaker 14: you know, convincing people that I'm not just a sports
• 40:34
  Speaker 14: guy was a thing that I was at least concerned about.
• 40:37
  Speaker 14: The the hiring committee seemedless concerned about it as I
• 40:40
  Speaker 14: went through. But you know, I'm a music guy, I'm
• 40:43
  Speaker 14: an arts guy. I love museums, I love food. You know,
• 40:47
  Speaker 14: my interests are varied. And you know, Capital Market for
• 40:50
  Speaker 14: us was you know, uh, you know, a cornerstone of Charleston,
• 40:54
  Speaker 14: and it's where we took you know, out of town
• 40:55
  Speaker 14: visitor outse That's where we you know, it's it's what
• 40:58
  Speaker 14: we wanted when we wanted to.
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: Showcase Charleston and what we were about. That's where we went.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: I was gonna say because whenever people come to Charleston,
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: my experience has been and my wife's company would say
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: the same thing.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: When they came to Charleston, they'd say.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, we have time and evening, where do
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: we need to go? That was always number one. You
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: got to go to Capitol Marks.
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  Speaker 3: One hundred percent.
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  Speaker 14: So there's established brand there and I have an appreciation
• 41:18
  Speaker 14: for that nostalgia, the memories that people make, you know,
• 41:21
  Speaker 14: sorting through through pictures, I can see my son with pumpkins.
• 41:24
  Speaker 14: We went there and picked out our Christmas trees. You know,
• 41:27
  Speaker 14: when we lived in South Hills in Charleston, it was
• 41:29
  Speaker 14: always a big thing for me to have the hanging flowers,
• 41:32
  Speaker 14: you know, So my wife and I would go and
• 41:34
  Speaker 14: pick out the flowers, and you know, we'd go into
• 41:37
  Speaker 14: inside the Capital Market. We were there for an event
• 41:39
  Speaker 14: a few weeks ago, and my son wanted to go
• 41:40
  Speaker 14: in and get something from the sushi.
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  Speaker 3: Garden, you know.
• 41:43
  Speaker 14: So like it's just it has everything, and it's everything
• 41:47
  Speaker 14: that I want Charleston to be and so to kind
• 41:50
  Speaker 14: of be a caretaker of it, like it's a really
• 41:52
  Speaker 14: big deal to me.
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  Speaker 3: What is your vision for Capitol Market?
• 41:54
  Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean we want to grow. There's challenges there.
• 41:58
  Speaker 14: There's built in challenges as far as it being kind
• 42:00
  Speaker 14: of land locked on all four sides with parking lots
• 42:04
  Speaker 14: or Smith Street. But we want to grow, find ways
• 42:07
  Speaker 14: to grow, find ways to engage the community more and
• 42:12
  Speaker 14: create that next generation of people who care about the market.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 42:15
  Speaker 14: That's you know, my son's thirteen years old, so I
• 42:18
  Speaker 14: want him to grow up and have children and that's
• 42:21
  Speaker 14: their destination on the weekends or the evenings or whatever.
• 42:25
  Speaker 14: So I want it to be a really family friendly
• 42:28
  Speaker 14: place and you know, a place where everybody goes like
• 42:30
  Speaker 14: you're saying, and kind of be that gem of Charleston.
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  Speaker 2: Can you hang out with me here one second? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: That's fine, imagine that Tony's worth it.
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  Speaker 3: No, he's not all right. I want to take a break.
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  Speaker 2: about how many men shops were there in a two
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: hundred miles radius. That he says independent stores within a
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  Speaker 2: two hundred mile radius about nine. I was a little
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: high on that, So they're about nine or so within
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: a two hundred mile radius. Chuck McGill is here, the
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: new director of Capital Market. So we're getting into Thanksgiving
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: and Christmas, always a big time at the Capitol Markets.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Give us an idea of some things that are planned
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: for holidays.
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, I'm coming in at the right time the
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  Speaker 3: bur months or the wrong time. No to look at
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  Speaker 3: it that that's always.
• 45:39
  Speaker 14: My favorite time of the year. So I'm an October baby,
• 45:42
  Speaker 14: So I'm a fall guy.
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: I'm a winter guy. But we have the Feasts of
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: the Seven Fishes.
• 45:46
  Speaker 14: My first day is Monday, and we have an event
• 45:49
  Speaker 14: that night that's already sold out, Feast of the Seven Fishes.
• 45:52
  Speaker 14: That's a that's a huge deal. And then on the
• 45:55
  Speaker 14: tenth is the market mingle, the marry market mingle. So
• 45:58
  Speaker 14: that's the next big thing. You can go on cap
• 46:00
  Speaker 14: market dot net and get tickets stills for that one.
• 46:02
  Speaker 14: So those are our big events, and then you know
• 46:05
  Speaker 14: we're just getting you know, getting the market all festive.
• 46:08
  Speaker 14: I mean there's there's been people painting windows, and the
• 46:11
  Speaker 14: Christmas trees are there, and there's you know lights everywhere,
• 46:14
  Speaker 14: and of course, uh, you know we're gonna go judge
• 46:17
  Speaker 14: Christmas trees after this, you know, at Holly Jolly Brawley,
• 46:20
  Speaker 14: So we're involved with that and it's just a really
• 46:23
  Speaker 14: exciting time to you know, dive in with with two feet.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: And you talk about and this is what Tony and
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: I were talking about a little earlier about Charleston really
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: becoming a holiday Christmas destination. I mean between Holly Jolly
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: Brawley and the Light the Night and just everything else
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: through the largest Christmas parade around that'll be next week,
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: and and what's going on at Capital Market and just
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: I mean there's so many things going on in Charleston
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: at one time for Christmas.
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 46:53
  Speaker 14: I got my my market email set up and the calendar. Candice,
• 46:57
  Speaker 14: the director of Market and Communications at the Capital Market,
• 47:00
  Speaker 14: started adding things to my calendar and I was like
• 47:02
  Speaker 14: flipping through and I was like, Okay, this event's that night,
• 47:05
  Speaker 14: this of the parades, this night, the market mingles, this night,
• 47:08
  Speaker 14: it's loaded. And I think that speaks well of Charleston
• 47:11
  Speaker 14: that there's always something going on and the synergy that
• 47:14
  Speaker 14: the market has with downtown and you know, there's there's
• 47:18
  Speaker 14: you know, trolley's going around taking you from place to place,
• 47:20
  Speaker 14: and there's vendors and there's music, and there's something to
• 47:24
  Speaker 14: do every night, you know, this weekend with the tree
• 47:26
  Speaker 14: lighting ceremony. So I think it's really cool the vibe
• 47:29
  Speaker 14: and the momentum that Charleston has, especially around the holidays.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: Talking to Chuck mcguild again, who is the new director
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: of a Capital Market, I want to throw this in here,
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: this little promotion that we're going to be doing starting
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: next week. You can save up to sixty percent off,
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: says WV Bargains.
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: Won't be caught.
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: Save up to sixty percent off on items like certificates
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: to Eddie's Tyron Service, pest control services from Spotlight Pest Control, gas,
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: fireplaces from Fireside, and patio tent rentals from Quantum, sixty
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: percent off car detailing services from Oaks Citiado, Spa jewelry
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: certificates from pettit jwelry tax services from Penny Pincher, certificates
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: on bar furniture, and more items all across the valley
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: and across the state, really across state lines too in
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: our surrounding states where we have WVRC media properties. And
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: again it's going to kick off a next Monday. It'll
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: run through the fifth wv bargains dot Com. Wv Bargains
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: is a wv RC media promotion.
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: So we talked about some of the struggles of capital market,
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: mainly not of your own doing but or the market's undoing,
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: but just because you are kind of landlocked there. But
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: on your wish list, and I'm not saying these are
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: going to be promises from Chuck McGill, okay, but on
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: your wish list, what would you like to see?
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: I think I've been really encouraged.
• 48:36
  Speaker 14: So I've been in Huntington for nine years, but We've
• 48:38
  Speaker 14: come back all the time because Charleston's my home. My
• 48:41
  Speaker 14: mom and dad are here, my aunts and uncles are here,
• 48:43
  Speaker 14: cousins are here. And what I've seen from the downtown
• 48:47
  Speaker 14: and how you know, a rising tideless all boats situation,
• 48:50
  Speaker 14: so you get five Street and then you get Short
• 48:52
  Speaker 14: Story for example. I think having the area around the
• 48:57
  Speaker 14: market also lifted up benefit the market. Yeah, so I
• 49:01
  Speaker 14: think that's a very long term, ambitious goal. But with
• 49:05
  Speaker 14: the ballpark there and the light, the night and all
• 49:07
  Speaker 14: that brings and kind of the the natural flow to
• 49:11
  Speaker 14: the market, if if the area around the market was
• 49:14
  Speaker 14: also enhanced, I think that would benefit the market a lot.
• 49:18
  Speaker 14: With its proximity to the interstate and the you know,
• 49:21
  Speaker 14: the interchanges there and the easy on and off, I
• 49:24
  Speaker 14: would love to see that area kind of lifted up
• 49:27
  Speaker 14: like the Downtown's been listed it lifted up. But that's
• 49:28
  Speaker 14: a you know, very long way outside of my control
• 49:31
  Speaker 14: exactly exactly.
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: But that's why that's why we call it a wish list. Yeah,
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: you know, absolutely, And you're.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: Talking about being in Huntington. I think it's amazing what
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: they have done with Pullman Square in Huntington because I
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: was a student at Marshall in the early nineteen nineties
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: and we all remember the super Block. It had been
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: talked about going back to the eighties. They're going to
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: build this big thing down and it was just promise
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: after promise broke. It and then loan thehold one day,
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: Pullman Square pops up and it has totally revitalized that.
• 49:56
  Speaker 14: Area absolutely, and that's a great blueprint for us to follow.
• 50:00
  Speaker 14: And I've watched that, you know, I went to Huntington
• 50:02
  Speaker 14: in twenty sixteen and was able to watch that kind
• 50:04
  Speaker 14: of evolve over the years.
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: So that's that's, you know, in in game, that would
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: be my top goal.
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: All right, well, Chuck, I appreciate you stopping by the show,
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: and I know you.
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: Can to do great things over there.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: You got a great marketing director and Candice, but you
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: also got a great board of directors over there. Big
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: shout out to my man Steve Keith and there you
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: guys over there. So we'll let you get out of
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: here and let you go downtown and judge from Christmas
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: trees and we'll have you on a few more times
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: between now and Christmas, and of course you're always welcome
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: here throughout out the year. Appreciate you, man, All right,
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: thank you, Dave, All right, thanks a lot. We're going
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: to transition over talking to my man TJ. Meadows coming
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: up a talk line at the top. Hang out with
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: me just once. Can you give me like two or
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: three minutes because I need to talk to you a
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: little bit. Okay, but but I'm gonna turn your microphone off.
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: How's that all right?
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: DJ Meadows is here? What you got on talking?
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: It's the after show, buddy, that's what you stayed around for,
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: the after show, the after party.
• 50:52
  Speaker 15: A ten oh six E. Gordon Ghee joins us today.
• 50:57
  Speaker 15: You know, doctor Gee penned another commentary that was in
• 50:59
  Speaker 15: the Hill talking about college athletics.
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: He's been talking more now that he's not.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: A president, which I really enjoy.
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: So we're gonna get into that with Gordon.
• 51:07
  Speaker 15: We'll probably talk Thanksgiving in a host of other things
• 51:10
  Speaker 15: as well with him. Bridget Lambert of the West Virginia
• 51:12
  Speaker 15: Retailers Association on Black Friday joins us at ten thirty.
• 51:15
  Speaker 15: Hobby's in at eleven six. He's got issues with what
• 51:18
  Speaker 15: the CDC has done about vaccine mornings courtesy of Robert
• 51:22
  Speaker 15: Kennedy Junior. So we'll talk about that and I'm sure
• 51:26
  Speaker 15: other you know, top like, there's nothing to talk about.
• 51:29
  Speaker 15: There's nothing going on that Hobby would want to opine about.
• 51:32
  Speaker 15: My buddy Mike McKenna has a great piece out. He's
• 51:35
  Speaker 15: a columnist for The Washington Times talking about Thanksgiving. We'll
• 51:39
  Speaker 15: speak with him on that. I want to pick his
• 51:41
  Speaker 15: brain on a few things Trump. You know, he used
• 51:43
  Speaker 15: to be He was in the Trump administration during the
• 51:45
  Speaker 15: first term, and so he's got that unique perspective as well.
• 51:49
  Speaker 15: I want to talk abouit about tariffs. I want to
• 51:51
  Speaker 15: talk about going after Comy and several other things with
• 51:56
  Speaker 15: Mike as well.
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: All right, now, programming note, there will be no local
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: show of mine tomorrow and Friday. I'll be back on Monday,
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: but Metro News Midday is coming up later today. We'll
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: have a best of Metro News Midday tomorrow and then
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: a live show on Friday. No Amanda Baron on Friday
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: for Metro News Midday, I will be here. Speedy Bevans
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: Broadcasting legend will be my guest. Yeah, pretty cool, Pretty cool.
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: I might to stick around and just listen to it.
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: Well, come on in, come on in, man, All right,
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: we gotta go. I'll see you later today. I'll Metro
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: News Midday until later. I have to thank for a minute.
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: I have fun and love somebody