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11/27/2025 The Dave Allen Show - WVSU Students Launch Masquerade Gala & Tony the Taylor on Small Business Saturday · The Dave Allen Show

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  Speaker 3: Tony the Taylor is going to stop by two and
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  Speaker 3: your phone calls and text are always welcome. Big Ley
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  Speaker 3: nine three five five zero zero eight. Want to tell
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  Speaker 3: you about a musical event happening at West Virginia State
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  Speaker 3: University January the thirtieth at the Wilson Student Unions. Let's
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  Speaker 3: start about six here to talk about it. We've got
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  Speaker 3: to Madeline. Is that when I pronounced that right? Madeline say? Okay,
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  Speaker 3: you're on radio, so you have to say something. Okay, yes, okay,
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  Speaker 3: big gout, Madeline. And we also have Kylie Yes, and
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  Speaker 3: we have Tabby Tabby. All right, So first of all,
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  Speaker 3: let everybody to get to know you, introduce yourselves, tell
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  Speaker 3: us what you're studying at West Virginia State. How'd you
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  Speaker 3: get into this ill thing? Anybody can start go ahead,
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  Speaker 3: I think I think they're electing you, so go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Madeline Bailey. I am a double major. I do music,
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  Speaker 4: performance and communications with an emphasis in PR.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So I.
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  Speaker 4: Started playing the flue when I was ten and I've
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  Speaker 4: kept with it ever since. And I chose communications and
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  Speaker 4: public relations because I enjoyed that aspect of it when
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  Speaker 4: I was in high school. And I just thought that
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  Speaker 4: planning this gala for the orchestra would kind of combine
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  Speaker 4: the two. So the three of us thought it would
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  Speaker 4: be a good idea, and we kind of stuck with
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  Speaker 4: it ever since.
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  Speaker 3: And that's one of the reasons why you're here, because
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  Speaker 3: you folks reached out to me because you want to
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  Speaker 3: get into the whole PR thing. And and by the way,
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  Speaker 3: and by the way, just I didn't plan this. I'm
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  Speaker 3: actually drinking out of my West Virginia State coffee mug today,
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  Speaker 3: oh courtesy was my good friend Eric Cage, the president
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  Speaker 3: out there when he was on the show one day.
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  Speaker 3: I was drinking out of a Marshall coffee mug. And
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  Speaker 3: because I'm a well I went to hol On Now
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  Speaker 3: I went to Marshall, okay, And so I was drinking
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  Speaker 3: and he said, he said, you know, you need a
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  Speaker 3: West Virginia State coffee mug. And the next time he
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  Speaker 3: came in, lo and behore. He comes in, he hands
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  Speaker 3: me a West Virginia State coffee boy, I suck. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so he brought gifts. You guys didn't bring anything.
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  Speaker 6: Right, I wrote my presence.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, that's presence, not with a T right. All right,
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  Speaker 3: you're cut off. You're not going back on again. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: but but but movies, and I wanted to bring up
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  Speaker 3: the pr aspect of it because part of what you're
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  Speaker 3: doing is is you need to get the word out,
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  Speaker 3: so you contact your folks. Contacted me and so we'd
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  Speaker 3: like to come on and talk about this big event. So, uh,
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  Speaker 3: talk about your and I'll get to the other two.
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  Speaker 3: I was just kidding, and talk about your your musical
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  Speaker 3: experience when you started playing the flute? At what age I.
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  Speaker 4: Started playing the flute to ten? I was blessed because
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  Speaker 4: my parents let me have private lessons growing up. And
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  Speaker 4: I always just thought the flu was a very cool instrument.
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  Speaker 3: Say, what was it about the flute that I don't know?
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  Speaker 4: It just I always loved it. I always heard it
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  Speaker 4: in movies and things, and you always saw people playing
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  Speaker 4: the flute the wrong way. Usually in movies, it's playing
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  Speaker 4: it the right way.
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  Speaker 3: They always do in movies, whether it's no matter what
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  Speaker 3: the instrument is, guitar or whatever. My dad was a
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  Speaker 3: pretty good guitarist and it would kill him watching movies
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  Speaker 3: when people were playing guitar and they never moved their hands,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they just especially on the neck of the guitar,
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  Speaker 3: like no, stop that, stop that. So all right, now
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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 of an underachiever, so I'm just a communication. But
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  Speaker 6: I have been involved with music my entire life. I've
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  Speaker 6: been singing for as long as I can remember. I
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  Speaker 6: play 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.
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  Speaker 7: That was that.
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  Speaker 6: And I've been best friends with Maddie since high school.
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  Speaker 3: So would you guys? Where would you guys go to
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  Speaker 3: high school?
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  Speaker 6: We're both homeschooled.
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  Speaker 3: Actually homeschool okay, yeah, yeah, but you got to say
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  Speaker 3: so you went to 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: Not 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 3: All right, and you said you were a singer. What's
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  Speaker 3: your favorite genre? What do you sing?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I'm a little biased, but jazz, Okay, that's
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  Speaker 6: how I definitely love anything, Ella Fitzgerald, anything that King Cole.
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  Speaker 3: The classics, Yeah, the one sent to classic. I just
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  Speaker 3: I just got into jazz a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a person that loves music of all kinds and
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  Speaker 3: I just got into jazz a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 3: And my favorite is not any of those John Coltrane.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a huge Coltrane fan.
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  Speaker 8: Love.
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  Speaker 3: I love Coltrane, all right, and you are I'm Tabby,
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  Speaker 3: all right, Tabby, and tell us about you.
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  Speaker 9: I'm a music performance major and a communications miner.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: I played the trumpet. I started playing the trumpet when
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  Speaker 9: I was in fourth grade. And I've always loved music.
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  Speaker 9: So getting to put on an event like this and
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  Speaker 9: be in college for music it it's really it's been
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  Speaker 9: really fun and it's been a really good experience, and
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  Speaker 9: I'm excited for this gala. It's gonna be fun, all right.
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  Speaker 3: And I will say something about this about the communications program,
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  Speaker 3: uh and all of the curriculum. You know that state
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  Speaker 3: is amazing, but the communications program is really good. And
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  Speaker 3: we've had a lot of folks that have come through
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  Speaker 3: here that were part of that program. Hollywood. Jeff Patty,
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  Speaker 3: who produced this show for many years. You know, you
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  Speaker 3: guys know Jeff well. Jeff, of course he works on
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  Speaker 3: our sister station's ninety eight seven of the Mountain and
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  Speaker 3: also KWS on the weekends. And Jeff and I have
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  Speaker 3: known each other for a number of years. I hope
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  Speaker 3: he's not listening right, because I'm gonnaive him a compliment.
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  Speaker 3: Jeff's class act. He's a good dude, I was. I'm
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  Speaker 3: lucky to have him as a friend and as a
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  Speaker 3: coworker too. But don't ever tell him I said that,
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  Speaker 3: all right, doing, all right, let's talk about the event.
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  Speaker 3: Let's talk about the event. It's January the what thirtieth?
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  Speaker 3: January thirtieth, all right, and what are people if they
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  Speaker 3: come out for, what are they going to hear? What
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  Speaker 3: are they going to experience that night?
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  Speaker 4: So we are having a bunch of things. We're having
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  Speaker 4: live music by the jazz band. You'll hear her saying
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  Speaker 4: she's very modest, but she has a gorgeous voice, and
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  Speaker 4: she's not trained, she's she's got a gorgeous voice. So
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  Speaker 4: you hear her saying, we have a bunch of people singing.
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  Speaker 4: Our jazz band is incredible. We're going to have some
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  Speaker 4: orchestra groups perform. This is in celebration of the ten
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  Speaker 4: years of orchestra, so we're wanting to honor all the
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  Speaker 4: hard work that people have put in. We're going to
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  Speaker 4: have food for everybody and a silent auction, and we're
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  Speaker 4: going to have live dancing and live music and we'll
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  Speaker 4: have some recorded music too, and for you, we'll have
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  Speaker 4: a silent auction for people with a bunch of fun things.
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  Speaker 4: We can't let people.
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  Speaker 3: Know that's part of them have part of the fun.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll have a little surprise for some people when
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  Speaker 4: they get there. And we just want to have a
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  Speaker 4: good time of people.
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  Speaker 3: And it says it's a masquerade ball, tell you we're
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  Speaker 3: doing the whole Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So you can't come in unless you have a mask.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, and we're just one to get a mask
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  Speaker 3: like that.
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  Speaker 6: Well Amazon, you can get a mask on Amazon, phon
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  Speaker 6: co Bucks. I don't care what kind of mask you show.
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  Speaker 3: Up and hardcore about it.
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  Speaker 9: Right.
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  Speaker 10: Well, we're going to have.
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  Speaker 6: A photo booth like a genuine red carpet so that
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  Speaker 6: people can take photos. It's not going to be in vain.
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  Speaker 6: So you know, show up looking absolutely stellar because your
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  Speaker 6: photo is going to.
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  Speaker 3: Be taken whether you like, whether you want it or not. Right,
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  Speaker 3: So that's what you're saying. 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 4: So yeah, we have an event on Facebook. Due to
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  Speaker 4: the it's combined with the WVSU Music on Facebook and
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  Speaker 4: the West Virginia State Orchestra on Facebook, and then the
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  Speaker 4: link is online 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 3: music and marching band. Those were the best times I
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  Speaker 3: had in junior high. In high school football games, conference parades,
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  Speaker 3: field show competitions. They would be surprised at how many
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  Speaker 3: of their favorite celebs were band geeks, including our own
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  Speaker 3: Jennifer Garner, who played saxophone in the GW Patriots Marching
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  Speaker 3: 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
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  Speaker 6: Washington and he swag for days.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody knows Phil, Yes, and Phil Washington is he'sa A yeah.
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  Speaker 3: guys hope to do? I'm gonna ask him a personal
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  Speaker 3: question of all three? What do you hope to do
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  Speaker 3: after graduation? Let's start with you. What do you what
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  Speaker 3: do you do? You know which we'll do after graduation.
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  Speaker 3: I like to go into music marketing, okay, all right,
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  Speaker 3: all right, what about you?
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  Speaker 6: Honestly I want to dabble and 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, I'm taking notes here, by the way, just so
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  Speaker 3: you know, because we're always looking for people.
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  Speaker 6: I'm a senior.
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  Speaker 3: All right, all right, Jeff Jenkins, if you're listening upstairs
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  Speaker 3: in the news department, come down and talk to this
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  Speaker 3: young lady or talk to all three of them. But
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  Speaker 3: go ahead, and I'm.
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  Speaker 6: Sorry, yeah, no, you're fine. I but broadcasting radio. I genuinely,
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  Speaker 6: really really love anything PR related. So I think it
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  Speaker 6: would be so fun to project manage and to put
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  Speaker 6: my hands into something that I can really feel good
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  Speaker 6: about and you know, bigger causes and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: So what about you.
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  Speaker 4: I am on the same lay as these too. I've
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  Speaker 4: looked into music marketing as well, but I love doing
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  Speaker 4: all of the aspects of communications. I work for sports
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  Speaker 4: information right now and I'm learning broadcasting and how to
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  Speaker 4: do the audio and journalistic aspects of it.
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  Speaker 3: Stephanie Poly is our producer and uh and she can
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  Speaker 3: help with that too, just so you know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I enjoy all of it.
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  Speaker 3: But she went to marshall, is that okay?
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  Speaker 4: You?
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  Speaker 3: I guess all right, all right, what are you gonna do?
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  Speaker 3: I let it slide all right again? I thought I
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  Speaker 3: turned your microphone off. All right. So appreciate all three
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  Speaker 3: of you been there. Give us the dates of the
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  Speaker 3: concert again. We'll have you on before then, but give
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  Speaker 3: us dates of the big event again January thirtieth, twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty six and ticket ser available on your social media. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: appreciate all three of you being here. Thanks a lot,
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, And I'm serious. I think Jenkins is going
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• 17:33
  Speaker 3: Want to welcome in now our good friend Tony the Taylor.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: How you doing man, Good morning, happy thanksgiving him. Dave
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: backed that microphone down a little bit because I you know,
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: a couple of those communications major we're a little soft speaking.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: We'll work on that, but not.
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: You, not me, not ye spoken.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: He heard you, you know, coming up out of South
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Hills a minute ago. All right, So Small Business Saturday
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: and listeners know my opinions on this. We should always
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: shop small and locally when possible. But we'll get in
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: that a little bit later on. Tony, you have been
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: a big part of Small Business Saturday for some time.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: You were telling me a story on the phone yesterday
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: twenty ten.
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: We were the only store in West Virginia to participate
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: in Small Business Saturday. And it's an augur year of
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: twenty ten, and then it's slowly picked up and then
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: it's become a big thing. Like Black Friday. We don't
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: participate in Black Friday. We give our employees that day off,
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: give them a today rest because from Black from Small
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: Business Saturday until Christmas Eve, it's full throttle to.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Let the roll aids kick in on the day after. Well,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: and let's be honest, I mean, Black Friday is not
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: the big deal that it used to be like twenty
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: years ago. Right, There's no.
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: When I was Cabbage Patch kids and you know all
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: there's different crazy toys that I bought when my kids
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: were young. Yeah, but yeah, so there's nothing really like that,
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: and there's no more. I mean, one hundred dollars television
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: is like a normal price now.
• 18:54
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but but I mean I just remember, you know,
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: what it used to be like. And I was always working,
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: so I you know, doing it all on Doring in
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: the morning show. My Black Friday was me being on
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: the air at you know, five point thirty in the morning.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: But I can remember, you know, the news reports of
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: how it used to be wild, and it's not that
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: way anymore. But small business Saturday has just continued to
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: get bigger and big. I had the mayor of Hurricane
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: on the show on Monday, and then Hurricane is a
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: very very small town. Okay, they go all out for it.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: I mean, you can't walk down the streets of Hurricane
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: for their you know, eight nine businesses that they have.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: And of course the valley parks got stuff going on
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: and throughout Day's valley. I know South Charleston saying everybody's
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: got stuff a big deal.
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: And it's the second largest volume day in the Christmas season.
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: The biggest is always and always has been the Saturday
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: before Christmas, no matter where it falls with Christmas. Sometimes
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: it's Christmas Eve that still be the biggest retail day.
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: And the Christmas season again, it's a short window this year.
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: We only have four Saturdays to get it done this year,
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: two years back to back, so retail sales will reflect
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: that when they report. Then sometimes we get five weeks.
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: Generally it depends just when Thanksgiving falls.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: And here's here's one of the knocks that I hear
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: about Charleston. There's nowhere to shop.
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: There's nowhere to those are the people who never come
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: to Charleston. They I mean, they obviously don't on my street.
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: I'm on a corner of Haile in Virginia. If you
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: walk two blocks north, there's every storefront is filled and
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: full of great little shops and restaurants. Capitol Street is
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: not a big retail center, but there's some great eateries there.
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: There's a couple of retail stores there. There are still
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: a couple of stores left in the mall here. But
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: then also you go just right up the hill there
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: and you have Bridge Road Shopping are great specialty stores
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: up there, fantastic. It's the way of retailing nowadays. There's
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: a mixture of online, small shopping areas and then larger
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: retail areas like South Ridge, which is huge. Everybody talks
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: you know, the hold the mall in Huntington. Well, Huntington
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: Mall wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the five times
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: as many stores that are on out parcels and are
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: surrounding it. It's just the way it is. People just
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: don't shop at enclosed malls anymore.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Just this fact and the interesting thing about that, to mean,
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: we're talking to Tony the Taylor Parnzino about small business Saturday.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: The interesting thing about that is is that you know,
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: you and I are roughly we Okay, no, you're a
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: lot older than me. But but we remember the heydays
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: of the malls, and it didn't have to be the town,
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: so it could be any mall across America and going
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: to the mall. Fast times at Ridgemont High, you know
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: which the movie that changed my life by the way,
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Uh I was cool act Yeah, yeah, well bb Kate's
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: pool scene. That's all I got to say about that
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: single handedly propelled me into puberty.
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: Uh.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: But but I but I will say that the days
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: of going people still go to malls. Okay, they still do. However, Uh,
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: the bigger we've gotten, the smaller we've gotten, because there's
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: people that still love to go to these small shops,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: just like the ones you mentioned in Charleston. And you
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: do incredible business down there, but you're still considered small
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: business obviously, but you but you're one though, and there
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: are several others that have kind of bridged that gap
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: between Okay, you can still come in and just look around,
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: but you also do things online. You also do things
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: you can do trunk shows and things of that nature.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: So I think the successful business in twenties twenty five
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Tony had about to be twenty twenty six has got
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: to kind of be a marriage of all of them.
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: You have to be omni channel if you're in retail,
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: no matter what size, I'm small to large. If you
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: have no Internet presence, you're not in business. We have
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: a very robust online store and ship all over the
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: country eight or nine packages a day. We're one of
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: the larger, probably single store online retailers in the country
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: for men's clothing. I sold three Oxford suits online ship
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: to Massachusetts. One went to Pennsylvania.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: And these are people that people you need to realize.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: These are people that in many cases don't have any
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: ties to this area. They're not from Charleston and said, well,
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: I still want to shop with Tony or whatever. The
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: people that just did the the Google machine search engine
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: and found you, you know.
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: And what's amusing to me sometimes is I recognize some
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: of the names I'm sending to. Uh, there'll be celebrities,
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: there'll be business type I mean other than me, other
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: than well, yeah, well you you walk in the store.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Okay, that's truely true with your entourage. But yeah, yeah,
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: but so.
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: It's just fascinating to me. But that's that's the way
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: it is, and it's it's fun and it keeps us going.
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: I mean, it really does. But again, it used to
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: be more than our own, than our in store business,
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: and now our in store business has surpass because Charleston again,
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: people are coming here. We have to collect your data.
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: I have people moving here all the time, and these
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: are the people you want moving here, professionals and it's
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: fantastic and people can say no. But the housing situation
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: reflects that there's a shortage of houses. There's a reason
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: there's a shortage of house. Yeah, and people are moving here.
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: And it's not just Charleston. I mean it goes on
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: down through the valley. Well, the whole thing is Charleston. Yeah, people,
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: this border thing, you're going across the board, you know,
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: I mean Charleston has forty eight thousand people. Then you
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: cross over the river and you got another thirty thousand
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: added to they're really are trading area is about six
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: hundred and fifty thousand people. Is our trading right now,
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: which is the Metro Valley and Logan we go to Pikeville.
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: That's that's pretty much. If you're in retail, that's you're trading, right.
• 24:11
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• 24:15
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  Speaker 3: So what small Business Saturday look like for Tony the Taylor.
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: We have great promotions again. Quarter zips are hot. That's
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: the hot item. That's the that's the cabbage patch kid
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: apparently of Christmas twenty twenty.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: But you're not gonna get a kidney injured trying to
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: find one.
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: We're doing a buy one, get one free on all
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: sweaters that day in store only on that but we
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: have outerwear at half price. We have great selection of shoes,
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: got a special selection of Johnson and Murphy's that are
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: seventy nine ninety nine for a dress roof, you need
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: a nice banner black dress, jew some other great deals
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: going on. You can check our website at Bestmaster Taylor
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: dot com for that and then we're ready to go.
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: Don't forget to come downtown for Holly Jolly Bray on
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: Friday of Art Walk. We are not open for this,
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: but so I can go out and actually enjoy it.
• 25:13
  Speaker 7: Some great events we have the Holiday Shopping Village going
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: on Slack Plaza, and you know, don't forget to stop
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: in my buddy at Sam's Uptown for a nice great
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: meal and a cocktail and walk around pod. It will
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: be an effect and it would be a great time.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: And again, you know, I had you on to talk
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: about your business because you're, you know, kind of up
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: sponsored this show, but I also wanted you to hit
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: on the other businesses, which you've done, because it's not
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: just it's not just the Tony the Taylor Show. I
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: mean everybody else is everybody. Everybody's taking part of it.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: And again, that vibrant downtown and I think people kind
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: of you know, and Holly Jolly Bray has been such
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: a big part of that over the last you know,
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: the last holiday seas.
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: I have to tell you Kevin Madison and Morgan Morrison
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: they work their tails off year round for this event
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: and every year they make it better and better and better.
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: And I'm pumped for the drone show that last year
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: was good, this year it's going to be spectacular.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, we had a text here for you and
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: that says, uh, how do you know measurements are accurate
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: if you're going by what someone posts on an online order.
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: Well, most things we sell online are belts, shoes, sports wear.
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: Very rarely we get things that we were don't do
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: anything custom made online except for belts. We have custom
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: belts online and we call them and that's the way
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: it is, or I will go visit them. Most we
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: don't really sell custom shirts online or that's it's impossible
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: to do accurately.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Well, And the great thing I think about about your
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: store is is people can go in there and they
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: can shop and not you know, you guys are experts.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: You and Ryan, you know you do a great job.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: And you go in and you know, okay, I gotta
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: I got a formal event coming up. Help me. And
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: I know I've hung out at your store enough to
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: know that that you get a lot of that people
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: coming in or put somebody bringing a kid in for
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: a Christmas formal or something like that, and and and
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: they don't know. What they don't know is that they.
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: Don't even weddings. You know, we do three or four
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: weddings weekend, which which is a huge business. We're probably
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: the largest tuxied to rental place in the thing. Well
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: we're cheaper than everybody else and we do it better
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: than everybody else. So it's it's uh, you know, it's
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: just fun. And we interview you first. We just want
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: to give you something. We want to make sure you
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: look good and feel good when you leave. And AM
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: sure event that's important, look good and feel good.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: Now you're a Charleston guy, I mean, born, born in bred,
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: and like what I always said, you're born and bred.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: When you die, you'll be Charleston dead. But uh, talk
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: about people always want to look back on any town
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: Tony and they all want to say, well this I
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: remember how it how it used to be, and that's okay.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: People have a tendency to look back through rose colored
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: glasses sometimes, you know, and it's not always like It's
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: like with music. You know, all the music of the
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: eighties was the best of all. It really was. It
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: really was. I mean, but we look about it and
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: you know, but but talk about what it was like
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: and there's still a lot of positive things going on,
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: But talk about growing up in Charleston East End kid
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: and what Charleston was like. And my point is not
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: to say it was better then than it is now.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying it's just different.
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: It's just different. It's just the way it is. I
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: mean again, And my dad started the store in nineteen
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: seventy four and I had to go to work. I
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: was nine years old, and downtown was thriving. It was busy,
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: and it's where everything wasn't Its like every downtown in
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: America was like that. And then the mall was built,
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: and Charleston was kind of on the forefront of building
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: the mall downtown rather than out in the outskirts, which
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: sucked down life out of downtown. Well, this mall did
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: suck the life out of downtown just four or five
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: blocks away. However, it we stayed downtown because we're downtown.
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: Store men don't go to shopping malls. And we thrived
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: and thrived and grew and grew and grew, and then
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: investment came downtown professionals building these buildings rehaving them, which
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: puts people down there. And then what happens. Restaurants open
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: up and service stores open up and it's just a
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: part of retailing. Then mall started to decline in the
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: late nineties. It's just the reality of it all over America,
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: not just in Charleston. And then strips shopping centers started
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: opening up on the outskirts. If you go to Columbus,
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: you're right, Oh, I go to go to Easton and
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: go to Columbus. That's not an indoor mall. It's an
• 29:28
  Speaker 7: outdoor mall. And the people who owned the Town Center
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: when they sold their portfolio, except for the Town Center
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: because it was heavily in debt. The group of the
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: Australian Big Mall group, every mall they bought of the
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: twenty four that twenty five malls of twenty four they bought,
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: they tore them all down and turned them into outdoor
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: shopping many downtowns basically, And that's just the way it is.
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: It's all over the country. The Internet really, you know,
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: I might have hurt malls a little bit. However, what
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: we see now is people will shop on our store
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: locally on the internet and then come and pick it
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: up in the store and then augment their purchase and
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: a lot of a lot of larger retailers are seeing
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: that if you're paying attention and reading like the Wall
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: Street Journal about retailing and well, and.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: You're a person that is never shy to give opinions.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: So I'm gonna I'm gonna ask you your opinion of
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: the town Center, the current State town Center.
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: It is sad to me what the other way it
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: will ever work. It just needs to be leveled and
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: rebuilt into an entertainment and arts district. You're right beside
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: one hundred million dollar facility. You need restaurants, you need
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: entertainment style stores. That's the only way I work. People
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: who want to buy and have all these ideas, they're
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: just clueless to retail. They have zero idea what they're
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: doing we're thinking about. I like people who think about it,
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: but again their ideas are just shot.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: Well. I mean, it was originally, you know, and this
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: has gone back and forth. We've had a commissioner Silango
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: and the mayor and others on to talk about this
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: that originally we talked about taking the town Center and
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: you know, making it into an aquatic center, and then
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: the funding you know, kind of went away. And that's
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: still it's still got something's still going to happen. Uh there,
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: But you got to understand that that mall is owned
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: by a private company as it stands right now, and
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: that private company, as long as they're paying their taxes
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: and as long as they're not, there's no you know,
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: there's not any major issues there. Not really a lot
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: of people can do. I don't understand their business model.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: They've done this in other places. The whole group is
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: purchased malls and and let them and just let them decline.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: That's what they do for tax reasons. I suppose. I
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: don't know, and I say that to say I agree
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: with you one hundred percent. I am a supporter of
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: something for that mall. That's not I mean. And to
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: these people that say, Tony, well, if we just put
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: a blank in there, it was David Busters. Uh you know,
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: God Blest, one of my former producers. If they just
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: put a David Busters, they saved them all. If we
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: just put a you know whatever, No, not one store
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: is not going to save them all. It's not about
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: it needs to be an entire, an entire entertainment complex.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: What needs to be leveled. Okay, but when you have
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: these people that come in for these big events like
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: at it, Shiney and whatever. They may play a game
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: at six o'clock on a Friday night and not play
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: another one till one o'clock on Sunday. What are they
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: gonna do. They're not gonna sit in a hotel room.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: They got to have something. Come down to Tony the
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: Taylor we do. We get tons, exactly tons of direct
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: business from these soccer tournaments and softball tournaments in these
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: large youth sports. If I may talk about the sports
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: complex real quick, we're we're just waiting on a federal funding.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: We are waiting Shelley Moore and at the time Senator Mansion.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: We have an ear mark, and these guys in Washington
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: can't get their stuff together and to get a budget done.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: And when it's done, the earmark will pop up and
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: we will get it and then we can finish. We've
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: done our part. The city of Charleston in the county
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: has done their part, and we're just waiting for your
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: congress people who are douless to do their part and
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: that and then we'll move forward. These things just aren't
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: built overnight. In the Aquatic Center, there's a reason they're
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: all nonprofit because they are abhorribly expensive and the maintenance
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: on them is out of control.
• 33:12
  Speaker 7: I can see that, and every private one has obviously.
• 33:15
  Speaker 7: I mean, just just do a little reading and research.
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: There's money pits because again they're dealing with water. I
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: think it'd be great, but who's going to pay for it?
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: Are you willing to pay? Are you willing to pay
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: more taxes to have that? And nobody is they're not.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: He's never shied with opinions. That's one of the reason
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: why you and I get along so well. I think,
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: all right, tell us, let's recap the small business Saturday again.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: Your business is going to be closed tomorrow and Friday.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: You'll open up on Saturday. But there's a lot of
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: activities going on downtown. Just final forty five seconds, forty
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  Speaker 7: We have a Black Friday art Walk downtown Holly Jolly
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  Speaker 7: at five, which are a long day come down, free
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  Speaker 7: parking and all of the ground and all the meters
• 34:01
  Speaker 7: on Saturday. Also, I want to mention we're having an
• 34:03
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• 34:06
  Speaker 7: a week from Thursday. It's a huge event, great deals,
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: and I appreciate you having me on here day.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: So what you're saying is you're going to suck more
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: of my money out of my pocket?
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: Right, Actually stopped by payroll and there's four year check
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: to me.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: Well you know you all right, I appreciate it. Text
• 34:28
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• 34:30
  Speaker 3: but we can't support them all.
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: Correct because stores don't are especially stores don't located in malls.
• 34:37
  Speaker 7: That's right.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: But your business is good, that's huge.
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  Speaker 7: I mean it grows every year. It grows every year.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to the show team. Minutes away from ten.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: Text says Easton does have an indoor section. That's right,
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: they do, and we appreciate that Tony was talking about
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: Easton up in Columbus that there is an indoor section,
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: but the majority of it is outdoors. I would think
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: text says, as a business owner, don't get political. You
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: saw what going one way did to Budweiser a few
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: years ago. Keep your political views to yourself. Well, appreciate
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: the text. No, Tony does too, but you just don't
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: know Tony the tailor just and I say that at
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: the best possible way. Didn't the public vote on an
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: aquatic center put that in the mall like promise? Well,
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: no they did not. Texas. How many other men's stores
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: are in two hundred miles with Charleston and large in
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: terms of sales, square footage, spirit opinion. Well, let's see.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: I'm going to say within two hundred miles of Charleston,
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: I can name off the top of my head at
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: least at least fifteen, at least fifteen. I'm saying I'm
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: off the top of my head at least fifteen. I
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: know Tony's got a list, because you know he does
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: things like that, so we'll kind of get about fifteen,
• 39:01
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• 39:04
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• 39:24
  Speaker 3: Good morning, sir, welcome to the show. Good morning. Your
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: name is certainly familiar to those of us run here,
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: but give those who may not know who you are.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: Give us your background.
• 39:33
  Speaker 15: Sure, born and raised in Charleston. Grew up, I guess
• 39:36
  Speaker 15: the first in South Charleston, then the West side, and
• 39:39
  Speaker 15: then I'm an Eastern Connall County product. Roots duke, last
• 39:42
  Speaker 15: class of DuPont High School. We shut it down.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: Okay, they said, we're done afteress.
• 39:47
  Speaker 10: That's it.
• 39:48
  Speaker 15: So yeah, So I've my roots are in Charleston. We
• 39:51
  Speaker 15: came back in two thousand and nine. My wife is
• 39:53
  Speaker 15: from Pittsburgh and she came back with you. We had
• 39:55
  Speaker 15: our son here. Worked at the Charleston Daily Mel then
• 39:58
  Speaker 15: when the Gazette and Daily Mail emerged, was the sports
• 40:02
  Speaker 15: editor there, and then spent my last ten years in
• 40:05
  Speaker 15: collegiate athletics, first at Marshall University and for the past
• 40:08
  Speaker 15: fifteen months at the Mountain East Conference. So I've been
• 40:10
  Speaker 15: at the Division one, Division two level of college athletics,
• 40:12
  Speaker 15: so very non linear journey here. But I'm back to
• 40:16
  Speaker 15: you know, back home, you know. And I grew up
• 40:19
  Speaker 15: running around Plaza East and going to Capital Market when
• 40:23
  Speaker 15: it was still a recycling facility, like you know, so
• 40:26
  Speaker 15: you know, I understand the history there and the tradition
• 40:29
  Speaker 15: and the nostalgia that comes with it. And when I
• 40:31
  Speaker 15: saw it, you know, I just I went after it
• 40:34
  Speaker 15: with gusto.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: What was it that made that made it appealing to you?
• 40:37
  Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean the the the you know, we we
• 40:40
  Speaker 15: took my son there when he was you know, when
• 40:43
  Speaker 15: he was a toddler. And you know, I think, you know,
• 40:48
  Speaker 15: convincing people that I'm not just a sports guy was
• 40:50
  Speaker 15: a thing that I was at least concerned about. The
• 40:53
  Speaker 15: the hiring committee seemed less concerned about it as I
• 40:56
  Speaker 15: went through. But you know, I'm a music guy, I'm
• 40:59
  Speaker 15: an arts guy. I love museums, I love food. You know,
• 41:03
  Speaker 15: my interests are varied. And you know, Capital Market for
• 41:06
  Speaker 15: us was you know, uh, you know, a cornerstone of
• 41:09
  Speaker 15: Charleston and it's where we took you know, out of town,
• 41:11
  Speaker 15: visited outse That's where we you know, it's it's what
• 41:14
  Speaker 15: we wanted when we wanted to showcase Charleston, what we
• 41:16
  Speaker 15: were about.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: That's where we went. I was going to say, because
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: whenever people come to Charleston, my experience has been and
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: my wife's company would say the same thing. When they
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: came to Charleston, they'd say, well, you know, we have
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: time in the evening, where do we need to go?
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: That was always number one. You got to go to
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: Capitol Market one hundred percent.
• 41:30
  Speaker 15: So there's established brand there and I have an appreciation
• 41:34
  Speaker 15: for that nostalgia, the memories that people make, you know,
• 41:37
  Speaker 15: sorting through through pictures, I can see my son with pumpkins.
• 41:40
  Speaker 15: We went there and picked out our Christmas trees. You know,
• 41:43
  Speaker 15: when we lived in South Hills in Charleston, it was
• 41:45
  Speaker 15: always a big thing for me to have the hanging flowers,
• 41:48
  Speaker 15: you know, So my wife and I would go and
• 41:50
  Speaker 15: pick out the flowers, and you know, we'd go into
• 41:53
  Speaker 15: inside the Capital Market. We were there for an event
• 41:55
  Speaker 15: a few weeks ago, and my son wanted to go
• 41:56
  Speaker 15: in and get something from the sushi garden, you know,
• 41:59
  Speaker 15: so like it's just it has everything, and it's everything
• 42:03
  Speaker 15: that I want Charleston to be and so to kind
• 42:06
  Speaker 15: of be a caretaker of it, like it's a really
• 42:08
  Speaker 15: big deal to me.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: What is your vision for Capitol Market?
• 42:10
  Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean we want to grow.
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: There's challenges there.
• 42:14
  Speaker 15: There's built in challenges as far as it being kind
• 42:16
  Speaker 15: of landlocked on all four sides with parking lots or
• 42:20
  Speaker 15: Smith Street. But we want to grow, find ways to grow,
• 42:23
  Speaker 15: find ways to engage the community more and create that
• 42:28
  Speaker 15: next generation of people who care about the market. You know,
• 42:31
  Speaker 15: that's you know, my son's thirteen years old, so I
• 42:34
  Speaker 15: want him to grow up and have children and that's
• 42:37
  Speaker 15: their destination on the weekends or the evenings or whatever.
• 42:41
  Speaker 15: So I want it to be a really family friendly
• 42:43
  Speaker 15: place and you know, a place where everybody goes like
• 42:46
  Speaker 15: you're saying, and kind of be that that gem of Charleston.
• 42:50
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• 45:27
  Speaker 3: how many men shops were there in a two hundred
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: miles radius that he says independent stores within a two
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: hundred mile radius about nine. I was a little high
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: on that, so they're about nine or so within a
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: two hundred mile radius. Chuck McGill is here, the new
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: director of Capital Market. So we're getting into Thanksgiving and Christmas.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: Always a big time at the Capitol Markets. Give us
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: an idea of some things that are playing for holidays.
• 45:49
  Speaker 15: Sure, yeah, I'm coming in at the right time. The
• 45:51
  Speaker 15: bur months are.
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: Right or the wrong time, No, I want to look
• 45:54
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• 45:54
  Speaker 15: That's always my favorite time of the year. So I'm
• 45:57
  Speaker 15: an October baby, So I'm a fall guy. I'm a
• 45:59
  Speaker 15: winner guy. But we have the Feasts of the Seven Fishes.
• 46:02
  Speaker 15: My first day is Monday, and we have an event
• 46:05
  Speaker 15: that night that's already sold out, Feasts of the Seven Fishes.
• 46:08
  Speaker 15: That's a that's a huge deal. And then on the
• 46:11
  Speaker 15: tenth is the Market Mingle, the Merry Market Mingle, So
• 46:14
  Speaker 15: that's the next big thing. You can go on Capitol
• 46:16
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• 46:18
  Speaker 15: So those are our big events, and then you know
• 46:21
  Speaker 15: we're just getting you know, getting the market all festive.
• 46:24
  Speaker 15: I mean there's there's been people painting windows, and the
• 46:27
  Speaker 15: Christmas trees are there, and there's you know, lights everywhere,
• 46:30
  Speaker 15: and of course, uh you know we're gonna go judge
• 46:33
  Speaker 15: Christmas trees after this, you know at Holly Jolly Braley.
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  Speaker 15: So we're involved with that and it's just a really
• 46:39
  Speaker 15: exciting time to you know, dive in with with two feet.
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  Speaker 3: And you talk about and this is what Tony and
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: I we're talking about a little earlier about Charleston really
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: becoming a holiday Christmas destination. I mean between Holly Jolly
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: Brawley and the Light the night and just everything else
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: through the largest Christmas parade around that'll be next week,
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: and what's going on at Capital Market, and just I
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: mean there's so many things going on in Charleston at
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: one time. For Christmas.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, I got my market email set up and the calendar. Candice,
• 47:13
  Speaker 15: the director of Market and Communications at the Capital Market,
• 47:16
  Speaker 15: started adding things to my calendar and I was like
• 47:18
  Speaker 15: flipping through and I was like, Okay, this event's that night,
• 47:20
  Speaker 15: this of the parades, this night the market mingles, this night,
• 47:24
  Speaker 15: it's loaded. And I think that speaks well of Charleston
• 47:27
  Speaker 15: that there's always something going on and the synergy that
• 47:30
  Speaker 15: the market has with downtown and you know, there's there's
• 47:33
  Speaker 15: your trolley's going around taking you from place to place,
• 47:36
  Speaker 15: and there's vendors and there's music, and there's something to
• 47:40
  Speaker 15: do every night, you know, this weekend with the tree
• 47:42
  Speaker 15: lighting ceremony. So I think it's really cool the vibe
• 47:45
  Speaker 15: and the momentum that Charleston has, especially around the holidays.
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: Talking to Chuck mcgild again, who is the new director
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: of a Capital Market, I want to throw this in here,
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: this little promotion that we're going to be doing starting
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: next week. You can save up to sixty percent off.
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: This is wv Bargains won't be caught. Save up to
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: sixty percent off on items like certificates to Eddie's Tyron Service,
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: pest control services from Spotlight Pest Control, gas fireplaces from Fireside,
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: and patio tent rentals from Quantum, sixty percent off car
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: detailing services from Oak Citiado, Spa, jewelry certificates from pettit
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: jwelry tax services from Penny Pincher, certificates to Dunbar Furniture,
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: and more items all across the valley and across the state,
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: really across state lines too in our surrounding states where
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: we have WVRC media properties. And again it's going to
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: kick off next Monday. It'll run through the fifth wv
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: Bargains dot Com. Wv Bargains is a WVRC media promotion,
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: all right. So we talked about some of the struggles
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: of capital market, mainly not of your own doing but
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: or the market's under end, but just because you are
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: kind of landlocked there. But on your wish list and
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying these are going to be promises from
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: Chuck McGill, okay, but on your wish list, what would
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: you like to see?
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  Speaker 15: I think I've been really encouraged. So I've been in
• 48:53
  Speaker 15: Huntington for nine years, but we've come back all the
• 48:55
  Speaker 15: time because Charleston is my home. My mom and dad
• 48:57
  Speaker 15: are here, my aunts and uncles are here, cousins are here,
• 49:00
  Speaker 15: and what I've seen from the downtown and how you know,
• 49:04
  Speaker 15: a rising tide lists all boats situation, so you get
• 49:07
  Speaker 15: five Street and then you get short Story for example.
• 49:10
  Speaker 15: I think having the area around the market also lifted
• 49:15
  Speaker 15: up would benefit the market. Yeah, so I think that's
• 49:17
  Speaker 15: a very long term, ambitious goal. But with the ballpark
• 49:21
  Speaker 15: there and the light the night and all that brings
• 49:24
  Speaker 15: and kind of the the natural flow to the market,
• 49:28
  Speaker 15: if if, if the area around the market was also enhanced,
• 49:32
  Speaker 15: I think that would benefit the market a lot. With
• 49:34
  Speaker 15: its proximity to the interstate and the you know, the
• 49:37
  Speaker 15: interchanges there and the easy on and off. I would
• 49:40
  Speaker 15: love to see that area kind of lifted up, like
• 49:43
  Speaker 15: the downtown's been listed lifted up. But that's a you know,
• 49:45
  Speaker 15: very long way. It's outside of my control exactly exactly.
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: But that's that's why we call it a wish list. Yeah,
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: you know, absolutely, And you're talking about being in Huntington,
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: I think it's amazing what they have done with Pullman
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: Square in Huntington because I was a student at Marshall
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: in the early nineteen nineties and we all remember or
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: the super Block. We've been talked about going back to
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: the eighties. They're gonna build this big thing down and
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: it was just promise after promise, broke it and then
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: lo and behold, one day Pullman Square pops up and
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: it has totally revitalized that area absolutely, And that's a
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: great blueprint for us to follow. And I've watched that,
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: you know, I went to Huntington in twenty sixteen and
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: was able to watch that kind of evolve over the years.
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: So that's that's, you know, in in game, that would
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: be my top goal. All right, well, Chuck, I appreciate
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: you stopping by the show, and I know you're going
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: to do great things over there. You've got a great
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: marketing director and Candaice, but you also got a great
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: board of directors over there. Big shout out to my
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: man Steve Keith and then he gu us over there.
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: So we'll let you get out of here and let
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: you go downtown and judge from Christmas trees and we'll
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: have you on a few more times between now and Christmas,
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: and of course you're always welcome here throughout not the year.
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: Appreciate you man. All right, thank you, Dave, all right,
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: thanks a lot. We're gonna transition over talking to my
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: man TJ. Meadows coming up in talk line at the top.
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: Hang out with me just once. Can you give me
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: like two or three minutes because I need to talk
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: to you a little bit. Okay, but I'm gonna turn
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: your microphone off now. How's that all right? DJ Meadows
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: is here? What you got on talking? It's the after show, buddy,
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: that's what you stayed around for, the after show, the
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: after party.
• 51:09
  Speaker 16: A ten oh six E. Gordon Ghee joins us today.
• 51:12
  Speaker 16: You know, doctor Gee penned another commentary that was in
• 51:15
  Speaker 16: the Hill talking about college athletics.
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: He's been talking more.
• 51:19
  Speaker 16: Now that he's not a president, which I really enjoy.
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: So we're gonna get into that with Gordon.
• 51:23
  Speaker 16: We'll probably talk Thanksgiving in a host of other things
• 51:26
  Speaker 16: as well with him. Bridget Lambert of the West Virginia
• 51:28
  Speaker 16: Retailers Association on Black Friday joins us at ten thirty.
• 51:31
  Speaker 16: Hobby's in at eleven six. He's got issues with what
• 51:34
  Speaker 16: the CDC has done about Vaccine Mornings courtesy of Robert
• 51:38
  Speaker 16: Kennedy Junior. So we'll talk about that and I'm sure
• 51:42
  Speaker 16: other you know, top like, there's nothing to talk about now,
• 51:45
  Speaker 16: there's nothing going on that Hobby would want to opine about.
• 51:48
  Speaker 16: My buddy Mike McKenna has a great piece out. He's
• 51:51
  Speaker 16: a columnist for the Washington Times talking about Thanksgiving. We'll
• 51:55
  Speaker 16: speak with him on that. I want to pick his
• 51:57
  Speaker 16: brain on a few things Trump. You know, he used
• 51:59
  Speaker 16: to be he was in the Trump administration during the
• 52:01
  Speaker 16: first term, and so he's got that unique perspective as well.
• 52:05
  Speaker 16: I want to talk about about tariffs, I want to
• 52:07
  Speaker 16: talk about going after Comy and several other things with
• 52:12
  Speaker 16: Mike as well.
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: All right now, Programming note, there will be no local
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: show of mine tomorrow and Friday. I'll be back on Monday,
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: but Metro News Midday is coming up later today. We'll
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: have a best of Metro News Midday tomorrow and then
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: a live show on Friday. No Amanda Baron on Friday
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: for Metro News Midday. I will be here. Speedy Bevans
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: Broadcasting Legend will be my guest.
• 52:31
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: Pretty cool, pretty cool. I might to stick around and
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: just listen to a well come on in, come on in, man.
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: All right, we gotta go. I'll see you later today
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: on Metro News Midday. Until later I had to thank
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: for a minute. I have fun and love somebody.