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09/04/26 The Dave Allen Show 580 Live - Angie Gillenwater, Retiring Charleston PD Deputy Chief Tony Hazelett, & Tony the Tailor · The Dave Allen Show

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Speaker 1: The views and opinions expressed on this program do not
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Speaker 1: the United States of America, the state, West Virginia, the city, Charleston,
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Speaker 1: this is the Dave Allen Show on 580 Live.
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Speaker 2: And your host.
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Speaker 3: What we've got here is failure to communicate.
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Speaker 2: He's kind of a big deal.
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Speaker 4: I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass.
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Speaker 4: And I'm all out of bubblegum.
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Speaker 2: Dave Allen. And a good Friday morning to you. Welcome
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Speaker 2: to the show.
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Speaker 3: Stephanie Pauley is our producer today. Guarantee Bank Hotline 304-345-5858.
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Speaker 3: Texting services provided by West Virginia's finest men's store, Tony
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Speaker 3: the Tailor on Virginia Street in Charleston. No live commercial
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Speaker 3: for Tony the Tailor today because he's actually here in studio.
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Speaker 2: How you doing, man? Good morning, Dave. Rocking your WVU
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Speaker 2: gear today. It's white out for Pat White tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: Tony's going to be co-hosting the show with me today.
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Speaker 3: We'll get back to him a little bit later on.
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Speaker 3: Metro News meteorologist Brian Hughes says the heat is going
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Speaker 3: to continue today. Heat index in the mid-100s. Air temps
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Speaker 3: in the mid-90s. Going to have some pop-up showers and
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Speaker 3: thunderstorms late in the day. And we've got to keep
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Speaker 3: a kind of close eye on that for high school
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Speaker 3: football tonight, especially if we have, you know, thunder and lightning. Well,
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Speaker 3: not so much thunder, but lightning in there. Lows are
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Speaker 3: going to be in the low 70s tomorrow. Widespread showers
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Speaker 3: and storms. But that'll come with that will come some
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Speaker 3: relief from the heat. Highs are going to be in
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Speaker 3: the upper 80s Sunday. Labor Day Monday looking really good.
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Speaker 3: Some lingering showers, though. Sunday morning will break out the
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Speaker 3: sunshine for Sunday and Labor Day and less humid.
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Speaker 2: That is good.
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Speaker 3: That's pretty good stuff right there.
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Speaker 2: We'll take it. We'll take it.
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Speaker 3: You can download the Metro News television app, follow Brian's
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Speaker 3: team of weather pros on social media, on all the
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Speaker 3: Metro News platforms and Brian's page as well. Coming up,
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Speaker 3: as I said, Tony the tailor is here with us today.
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Speaker 3: And there's actually a reason for him to be here.
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Speaker 3: You have a reason to be here.
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Speaker 2: Besides giving you all money?
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Other than that, there's actually a reason why you're here today.
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Speaker 2: And we'll get to that a little bit later on.
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Speaker 3: Announcement made a couple of days ago that Tony Hazlitt
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Speaker 3: would be retiring from the Charleston Police Department. Longtime officer there.
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Speaker 3: Today is his final day on the job. Taking time
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Speaker 3: out to join me in studio this morning. So we'll
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Speaker 3: talk to Mr. Hazlitt, who is going to ride off
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Speaker 3: into the sunsets. after a very, very storied career with
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Speaker 3: the Charleston Police Department. We'll get into a little high
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Speaker 3: school football and some other things going on as well.
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Speaker 3: Guarantee Bank Hotline, 304-345-5858. Tony Vitale or Tax, 304-935-500.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to the show now.
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Speaker 3: Angie Gillenwater, Kanawha-Charleston Humane Association, with this week's Adopt Me
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Speaker 3: Please Pet of the Week, brought to you by Almost
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Speaker 3: Heaven Interiors.
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Speaker 2: Angie, good morning, and welcome to the show.
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Speaker 6: Good morning. I'm happy to be here.
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Speaker 3: And I got Tony the tailor here as well. So
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Speaker 3: please watch what you say.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Angie.
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Speaker 6: Good morning. All right.
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Speaker 3: So as always, our pet of the week's picture posted
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Speaker 3: Dave Allen radio and Facebook and the WCHS network, Facebook
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Speaker 3: page and Dave Allen on X.
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Speaker 2: Tell us about solar.
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Speaker 6: So solar originally came to KCHA as part of a
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Speaker 6: cruelty investigation that has since been resolved. And now she's
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Speaker 6: available for adoption and, But she's about two years old.
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Speaker 6: She loves to play with other dogs and she loves kids.
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Speaker 6: She's quite literally just like the perfect dog. One of
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Speaker 6: my favorites that we have right now. She joined us
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Speaker 6: at the Charleston Dirty Birds game on Friday night and
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Speaker 6: at Kegs for Canines on Saturday and was just an
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Speaker 6: absolute dream of a dog at both events.
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Speaker 2: She is a beautiful dog.
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Speaker 3: Any any idea what kind of dog she is?
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Speaker 6: That, I would say probably just a medium-sized West Virginia
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Speaker 6: black dog.
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Speaker 3: You normally say West Virginia brown dog, but it's a
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Speaker 3: black dog. It looks like, and it's hard to tell
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Speaker 3: from the picture, and I was at Kegs for Canines,
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Speaker 3: but I didn't get to see her there.
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Speaker 2: If I did, I didn't notice.
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Speaker 3: It looks like she's one of those, for lack of
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Speaker 3: a better term, very shiny dog. If she's all bathed up,
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Speaker 3: she's going to glisten a little bit.
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Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, absolutely. I would agree with that.
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Speaker 3: So again, the solar's picture posted over on my social media,
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Speaker 3: and you mentioned Kegs for Canines.
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Speaker 2: What a great event at the Red Carpet Lounge last week.
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Speaker 6: Absolutely. I have to thank everyone that was involved with that.
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Speaker 6: This was actually the highest number of attendees we've had
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Speaker 6: since hosting Kegs for Canines. So thank you to everyone
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Speaker 6: that came to that and joined us and helped us
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Speaker 6: save some shelter pets. Again, that That's amazing news that
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Speaker 6: this was the highest attendance one.
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Speaker 2: I had a blast there. It was great. And I
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Speaker 2: saw Solar, petted Solar. Had to leave because I didn't
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Speaker 2: want to take her home with me. She's a beautiful dog.
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Speaker 2: She really is. You folks are doing some hiring up there, Angie,
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Speaker 2: from what I understand.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, we are. We're hosting some open interviews today between
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Speaker 6: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. We're looking for a veterinary assistant.
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Speaker 6: So essentially you are going to be assisting our veterinarian
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Speaker 6: with whatever she needs. But yeah, that's from two to
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Speaker 6: four today.
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Speaker 3: What kind of training does one have to have to
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Speaker 3: be a veterinary assistant?
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Speaker 6: So the good thing about KCHA, unless you're becoming the veterinarian,
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Speaker 6: you don't need any experience. You don't need any training.
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Speaker 6: We can show you the ropes on everything. So no
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Speaker 6: experience or prior work history is required to be able
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Speaker 6: to do these jobs that we have at the shelter.
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Speaker 6: We will train you to what we expect of you.
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Speaker 2: So I could even get a job there.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely. We'd love to have you.
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Speaker 2: I don't know about that. Uh, I was taking a
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Speaker 2: look at some of your numbers.
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Speaker 3: You have them actually posted. I saw your August report
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Speaker 3: posted on your social media. You guys are still pretty,
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Speaker 3: pretty filled.
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Speaker 2: Up up there.
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Speaker 6: Uh, yeah, it seems it's an ongoing trend, no matter
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Speaker 6: how many we send out the door that plus like
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Speaker 6: 10 more come right back in, which of course we're,
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Speaker 6: we're always happy to help and be a safe haven
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Speaker 6: for animals that need us. Um, So that's why we
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Speaker 6: just need to keep a stream of adopters and fosters
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Speaker 6: coming through our doors as well.
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Speaker 3: Talk about the importance of fosters because I don't think
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Speaker 3: we spend enough time talking about the fosters. And even
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Speaker 3: in your description of solar, you even said that this
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Speaker 3: dog would probably be good if somebody wanted to foster
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Speaker 3: her out or just take her out for a walk
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Speaker 3: or for the day or whatever.
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Speaker 2: But talk about the importance of fosters.
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Speaker 6: Yes, so fostering not only helps us staff members at
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Speaker 6: KCHA by creating space that we desperately need to help
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Speaker 6: other animals in need, but fostering is excellent for the
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Speaker 6: animal that you are taking into your home. Number one,
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Speaker 6: they're getting out.
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Speaker 2: Of the shelter.
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Speaker 6: It's noisy. It's loud. They're not getting the one-on-one time
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Speaker 6: they need, and there is a constant worry of being
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Speaker 6: exposed to particular illnesses in a shelter environment. So fostering
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Speaker 6: helps that animal in those ways. It also is a
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Speaker 6: great improvement for their mental health. It gives us an
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Speaker 6: idea of how they're going to be in a home
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Speaker 6: because a shelter environment and how they act is not
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Speaker 6: how they act in a home either. So it also
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Speaker 6: gives them a greater chance of being adopted by giving
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Speaker 6: us that inside look of how they act in a
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Speaker 6: home setting.
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Speaker 2: So we urge you to consider that. If you.
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Speaker 3: Can do that, foster them or even take them out.
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Speaker 3: Like I said, some people love animals, Angie, but they
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Speaker 3: live in a place where they can't necessarily... have pets
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Speaker 3: or maybe they have too many pets or, you know,
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Speaker 3: pet allergies as far as the kids go, whatever. There's
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Speaker 3: a variety of different reasons. But you can come up
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Speaker 3: there just about any day of the week and pick
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Speaker 3: up an animal and take the, you know, take it
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Speaker 3: for a walk, take it to the park or whatever.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, the doggy day out trips, now that the weather is,
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Speaker 6: I know we're in a heat wave right now, but
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Speaker 6: it is going to be calming down here soon. So
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Speaker 6: the doggy day out trips are a perfect way to
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Speaker 6: spend like an afternoon or even like a day off.
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Speaker 6: By taking an animal off site and getting them a
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Speaker 6: pup cup, going to a dog park, etc. That also
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Speaker 6: gives them the benefits of fostering. We know how they
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Speaker 6: act in a car. We know how they act like
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Speaker 6: on walks, things like that. They get a break from
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Speaker 6: the shelter. So that also gives us all those plus
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Speaker 6: signs that we want. while helping the animal and not risking,
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Speaker 6: you know, you having to take an animal into your
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Speaker 6: home if you're not allowed to or can't afford to,
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Speaker 6: whatever the case may be.
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Speaker 3: And speaking of dogs in the car, you had a
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Speaker 3: video posted on your Facebook page of a dog named
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Speaker 3: Elvis who is.
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Speaker 2: Just having his best day ever taking a car ride.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely. If you want to see what a doggy
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Speaker 6: day out can do for these dogs, definitely go check
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Speaker 6: out that video of Elvis. He's just this big brown
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Speaker 6: hound dog. That is hanging out the passenger side of
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Speaker 6: someone's vehicle with his ears blowing in the wind. It's
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Speaker 6: definitely a video that can sway you one way or
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Speaker 6: another if you should take a dog out for the day.
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Speaker 2: What are you guys in need of up there right now?
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Speaker 2: What's your biggest needs?
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Speaker 6: So big needs right now are going to be wet
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Speaker 6: food of any brand for dogs or cats. We are
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Speaker 6: always in need of that. And then we also need blankets,
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Speaker 6: towel sheets, linens, and any type of cleaning supply you
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Speaker 6: can think of, whether it be laundry detergent, dishwashing liquid, gloves,
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Speaker 6: scrubby pads, anything like that. We're also always constantly in
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Speaker 6: need of.
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Speaker 3: All right. So you guys are going to be out
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Speaker 3: and about anywhere this weekend.
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Speaker 6: Yes, we're actually coming to your neck of the woods tomorrow.
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Speaker 6: Taze Valley Petco will be there from 12 to 3
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Speaker 6: in our caravan with adoptable animals.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: Well, hopefully we'll have to stop by and say hello,
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Speaker 3: since I am the mayor of Taze Valley, they tell me,
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Speaker 3: even though it's unincorporated. Hey, Angie, it's always a pleasure
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Speaker 3: to talk to you, and have yourself a great Labor
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Speaker 3: Day weekend, and we will talk to you.
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Speaker 2: Again next week. Thanks a lot.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 7: You too.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: Angie Gilliwater, Kanawha-Charleston Humane Association and Solar is our dog
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Speaker 3: this week, Mr.
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Speaker 2: Perenzino.
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Speaker 3: Two years old, around that spade, vaccinated. Her adoption is covered,
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Speaker 3: so she's free. All taken care of there. Loves playful
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Speaker 3: dogs and really loves kids as well.
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Speaker 2: It's amazing. I mean, I played with Solar, had a
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Speaker 2: great time at the Kegs for Canines event And I
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Speaker 2: knew it would be a big attendant event. It was great.
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Speaker 2: PG did a fantastic job with the food. And what
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Speaker 2: a great event. I mean, it was fun. Great weather.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And then I moseyed on downtown to see the Jimmy
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Speaker 2: Buffett Tribute Band and then also Danny Harmison's band out
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Speaker 2: on Capitol Street. Man, it's just a shame there's nothing
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Speaker 2: to do in Charleston. There's nothing to do in Charleston.
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Speaker 2: Last Saturday, literally thousands of people downtown.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Two live concerts outdoors. Everybody's walking around drinking cold beer,
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Speaker 2: enjoying the weather. It's fantastic. Of course, nothing to do.
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Speaker 2: There's nothing to do in Charleston. Nothing to do in Charleston.
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Speaker 3: And that's actually going to pick up in the coming
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Speaker 3: weeks because they got the event in Clendenin that's going
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Speaker 3: to be next week. I know, and we'll talk about
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Speaker 3: that next week, the Chilling on the Elk, I think
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Speaker 3: is what it's called.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and what a great job those guys and Dave
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Speaker 2: Knight and them have done in Clendenin after the devastating flood.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you got that going on. Rib Fest is going
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Speaker 3: to be going on. Nitro Boom Days. They're going to
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Speaker 3: be going on. And speaking to Nitro real quick, I
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Speaker 3: told Joe Stevens I'd get this out here for him.
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Speaker 3: Sunday night, if you are looking for something to do
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Speaker 3: prior to Labor Day, this is the fourth year that
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Speaker 3: they've done this. They shut down the Dick Henderson Bridge,
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Speaker 3: which connects Nitro to St.
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Speaker 2: Albans. They completely shut it down about 830 or so.
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Speaker 3: And they invite people to come and watch the fireworks
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Speaker 3: that they're going to be setting off over the Kanawha
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Speaker 3: River there in St.
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Speaker 9: Albans.
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Speaker 3: They actually set them off, I think, from Roadside Park,
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Speaker 3: and there's nothing like that experience of actually being on that.
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Speaker 2: It's one of the most.
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Speaker 3: Heavily traveled bridges in the Kanawha Valley, but it's closed
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Speaker 3: between 8.30 and 10.30 on Friday night. You can just
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Speaker 3: hang out with your friends and just watch the fireworks
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Speaker 3: over the river there. The weather's going to be fantastic,
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Speaker 3: so if you're looking for something to do, On Sunday night, again,
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Speaker 3: they'll close down that bridge and go check that out.
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Speaker 2: It's a shame they didn't schedule the St. Albans Nitro
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Speaker 2: game that night. Well, that's tonight. That's tonight.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Okay.
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Speaker 3: Well, then there might be fights.
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Speaker 5: 9-20.
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Speaker 3: I invite you to join me every Friday morning, 9-06,
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Speaker 2: Tony DeTaylor is hanging out with me today.
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Speaker 3: We're going to take a break. Another Tony. We've reached
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Speaker 3: our Tony quota today. Tony Hazlitt, who is going to
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Speaker 4: I then actually took some classes at West Virginia State,
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Speaker 4: and then I applied at Huntington and Charleston. Charleston called
16:38
Speaker 4: me first, so I've been here ever since.
16:40
Speaker 3: And you've been, your entire career, you've been with the
16:43
Speaker 3: Tribal Police Department?
16:44
Speaker 4: Yeah, since 1999.
16:45
Speaker 2: Okay.
16:45
Speaker 3: So take us through that career, those early, I mean,
16:48
Speaker 3: you eventually became almost like the face of the police
16:50
Speaker 3: department because you dealt with the media and things of
16:52
Speaker 3: that nature. But talk about your early days and how
16:54
Speaker 3: you transitioned into the role you have now.
16:56
Speaker 4: So I was in control when I started out until 2002.
17:00
Speaker 4: In 2002, I got a phone call if I'd be
17:02
Speaker 4: interested in detective, which was pretty young in the career.
17:05
Speaker 4: So in 2002, I went to detective bureau. I spent
17:09
Speaker 4: 10 years as a regular detective there. Then I made
17:12
Speaker 4: sergeant and moved up and went to the road for
17:14
Speaker 4: a little bit. Then I got a call back from
17:16
Speaker 4: retired Chief Steve Cooper to be assistant chief of detectives.
17:20
Speaker 4: And since then, I just kept moving up, went to
17:22
Speaker 4: chief of detectives, investigative services bureau chief, and then deputy chief.
17:26
Speaker 3: What did you enjoy about the detective part of it?
17:29
Speaker 3: Because it's not what you see on television. I mean,
17:34
Speaker 3: neither is any kind of police work what you see
17:36
Speaker 3: on television. But what did you enjoy about the detective
17:38
Speaker 3: part of it?
17:38
Speaker 4: Solving the cases, especially serious cases, and giving relief to
17:42
Speaker 4: the family, notifying the family that we've made an arrest.
17:45
Speaker 4: That's satisfying to the detective.
17:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, talk about that feeling when you're able to.
17:48
Speaker 3: You know, somebody's had a tragedy like that, but you're
17:51
Speaker 3: able to at least get a little help them with
17:53
Speaker 3: a little closure.
17:53
Speaker 5: Right.
17:54
Speaker 4: And the emotions are high with families when they have tragedy.
17:56
Speaker 4: And when you're able to, I've always wanted to do
17:59
Speaker 4: it in person. You sit down with them and say, hey,
18:02
Speaker 4: we've made an arrest. And you just go through the
18:04
Speaker 4: process with it. They're so grateful in that, especially when
18:07
Speaker 4: you do it in person.
18:09
Speaker 3: Talking with Tony Hainsland again, who's going to be retiring, uh,
18:11
Speaker 3: today from the Charleston police department, nine 26, but Dave
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Speaker 3: Talk about some of the bigger cases. I'm going to
18:22
Speaker 3: get to some more interesting. So maybe a funny story
18:24
Speaker 3: here too, but talk about some of the serious, the
18:27
Speaker 3: biggest cases that you've worked on.
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Speaker 4: Uh, some of the biggest cases was one that sticks
18:34
Speaker 4: out was we nicknamed the plaid shirt bank robber. Um,
18:39
Speaker 4: He robbed almost 40 banks along the East Coast, all
18:43
Speaker 4: the way down to South Carolina, Kentucky, Minnesota, West Virginia.
18:47
Speaker 4: He ended up robbing three here in Charleston. And when
18:51
Speaker 4: was this?
18:52
Speaker 8: 2007.
18:52
Speaker 4: Okay. And the way he betrayed himself was as a
18:58
Speaker 4: truck driver. He put a truck's plaid shirt. We called
19:01
Speaker 4: him the plaid shirt robber. So we started working that case,
19:05
Speaker 4: and we had contact with several FBI agents. And we
19:10
Speaker 4: ended up solving it here in Charleston. We actually got him.
19:13
Speaker 4: He was from Rogersville, Missouri. And what he would do,
19:16
Speaker 4: he would travel over to the East Coast, rob a bank,
19:20
Speaker 4: go to the bank, go to Wheeling, to the casinos,
19:23
Speaker 4: launder the money, put the money in, hit cash out,
19:25
Speaker 4: so he wouldn't have any of the money on his person.
19:28
Speaker 4: And then he would go back to Missouri. We were
19:32
Speaker 4: able to solve that by he went through an ATM,
19:35
Speaker 4: one of the banks he was getting ready to rob,
19:37
Speaker 4: and checked his account balance. So we were able to
19:41
Speaker 4: solve that. He ended up getting 80 years in federal prison,
19:45
Speaker 4: and myself and another FBI agent was the only ones
19:47
Speaker 4: allowed to interview him.
19:48
Speaker 2: I mean, that's kind of cool.
19:50
Speaker 3: From a perspective that this guy robbed banks all up
19:53
Speaker 3: and down the East Coast, and the case was cracked
19:55
Speaker 3: by somebody here in little old Charleston, West Virginia.
19:58
Speaker 4: Yes, we got several phone calls from FBI agents in Minnesota, Lexington, Kentucky.
20:02
Speaker 4: They were all wanting the case filed.
20:04
Speaker 3: And he got busted because he checked his account balance.
20:08
Speaker 2: You know, there's a.
20:08
Speaker 3: Reason why I've always said that criminals will never take
20:10
Speaker 3: over the world, you know, because they're inherently stupid, you know,
20:14
Speaker 3: for the most part.
20:14
Speaker 2: Donnie, do you remember that case?
20:15
Speaker 4: I remember.
20:16
Speaker 2: I remember that happening. I remember all that. It was
20:18
Speaker 2: a big deal.
20:18
Speaker 4: It was a big case.
20:19
Speaker 2: It was a big deal.
20:20
Speaker 3: So give me a, and I hate to put you
20:22
Speaker 3: on the spot here, but give me a funny story
20:24
Speaker 3: that you've had. I mean, that's actually kind of funny.
20:26
Speaker 2: To be honest with you.
20:27
Speaker 4: Well, I will say this. So I'll tell you a
20:29
Speaker 4: funny one. I was a brand new patrolman. You know,
20:32
Speaker 4: I was wanting to patrol, solve crimes. And I wasn't
20:36
Speaker 4: familiar with Charleston. I'm a Huntington boy. So I come
20:39
Speaker 4: up and there was a call around the Civic Center.
20:42
Speaker 4: And so I'm driving around. Well, I make a left
20:45
Speaker 4: on Lee. What's the wrong way? I'm good traveling down Lee.
20:49
Speaker 4: And I'm like, people are honking at me. So I
20:51
Speaker 4: didn't want to look like I was stupid. So I
20:53
Speaker 4: turned my spotlight on the Civic Center to make sure
20:55
Speaker 4: I was looking at somebody. But, yeah, I remember that
20:58
Speaker 4: plane as day, so I felt silly on that one.
21:01
Speaker 3: Everybody's entitled to one or two, I guess.
21:03
Speaker 2: But now I'm going to presume that you're not new
21:06
Speaker 2: to the city anymore.
21:06
Speaker 8: You know the city.
21:07
Speaker 4: No, I know it pretty well.
21:09
Speaker 2: Like back your hand. So what's going to be next
21:11
Speaker 2: for you?
21:11
Speaker 4: I got my name in the hat on a few things.
21:15
Speaker 4: But to be honest with you, right now I'm probably
21:16
Speaker 4: going to spend time with family.
21:17
Speaker 6: Yeah.
21:17
Speaker 4: Heading to Morgantown.
21:19
Speaker 2: Nice.
21:20
Speaker 4: So we'll see what lies ahead.
21:23
Speaker 3: So– Who's going to be– what's the succession? Who's going
21:26
Speaker 3: to take over your role?
21:28
Speaker 2: Deputy.
21:28
Speaker 4: He's going to be Deputy Chief Kevin Oldham. He did
21:30
Speaker 4: special events. He did the regattas and coordination of that.
21:34
Speaker 4: He was inside the chief's office at the time that
21:36
Speaker 4: Chief Dempsey appointed him.
21:37
Speaker 2: Okay.
21:38
Speaker 3: And the– because I know you do a lot of, like,
21:40
Speaker 3: the PR type stuff because usually– anytime– I'll tell you
21:43
Speaker 3: a little inside baseball. Anytime anything happens– and I'm not
21:48
Speaker 3: a news person. I just hang around a lot– People say, well,
21:52
Speaker 3: call Hazlitt. Call Hazlitt's good. Have we heard from Hazlitt yet?
21:55
Speaker 3: So there's got to be a Hazlitt now. Yeah, Sergeant
21:57
Speaker 3: Travis Bells.
21:58
Speaker 4: Okay.
21:58
Speaker 2: He's been on the show before. He's very good.
22:00
Speaker 4: Yes, he's very good. What he does, yes.
22:02
Speaker 3: Talk about the Charleston Police Department as a whole over
22:04
Speaker 3: the years. I mean, you know, you've seen a lot.
22:07
Speaker 3: You've seen the numbers grow. You've seen them, you know, down.
22:11
Speaker 3: It seems like they just swore in a bunch of
22:12
Speaker 3: new officers. I had Chief Dempsey on the show talking
22:15
Speaker 3: about that. Talk about your time as a whole with
22:18
Speaker 3: the Charleston Police Department.
22:19
Speaker 4: Well, you know, I will say, you know, I was
22:24
Speaker 4: offered some federal jobs back in the day, and I
22:27
Speaker 4: turned it down. My family had a very tragic incident
22:31
Speaker 4: in 2006, and the Charleston Police Department took care of me, like,
22:36
Speaker 4: to the point that I will never forget it. And
22:39
Speaker 4: I knew right then I was going to give my
22:40
Speaker 4: life to the Charleston Police Department. And so they've been
22:43
Speaker 4: good to me, and I personally want to thank Mayor
22:49
Speaker 4: Amy Goodwin, And Chief Scott Dempsey and Deputy Chief Jason Webb,
22:53
Speaker 4: because they mean the.
22:54
Speaker 7: World to me.
22:56
Speaker 3: If you had advice for a person, you know, young
22:59
Speaker 3: man or woman coming out of high school, trying to
23:01
Speaker 3: decide what they want to do with their life. And
23:05
Speaker 3: how would you how would you persuade them to take
23:09
Speaker 3: up a career in law enforcement?
23:11
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, I would encourage a ride along.
23:14
Speaker 2: OK.
23:14
Speaker 4: Encourage a ride along. You can contact Sergeant Travis Bells
23:18
Speaker 4: or Sergeant Dennis West and do a ride along to
23:20
Speaker 4: see exactly what we go through day in and day out.
23:24
Speaker 4: That's the first step I would think that you need
23:26
Speaker 4: to do to see if you're you're there's something you're
23:29
Speaker 4: interested in.
23:29
Speaker 3: OK, so they go through that and they've decided this
23:31
Speaker 3: is something I'm interested in at that point. Where what
23:34
Speaker 3: would your advice to them be?
23:36
Speaker 4: Well, you know, as a new officer. If you're hired,
23:41
Speaker 4: a couple of things I would say. That would be, one,
23:45
Speaker 4: is your reputation in the community. Okay? Your reputation in
23:50
Speaker 4: the community could take years to build but seconds to lose.
23:55
Speaker 4: Very true. So stay honest. Stay the course. Remember your
24:01
Speaker 4: safety tactics. Remember your training.
24:04
Speaker 3: Talking to Tony Hazlett again, who is going to be
24:06
Speaker 3: retiring today after 27 years.
24:07
Speaker 2: 27 years.
24:10
Speaker 3: On the Charleston Police Department. Well, you're certainly going to
24:13
Speaker 3: be missed, Tony. You're a downtown business owner and a
24:16
Speaker 3: man about town, so I know you seem to find
24:18
Speaker 3: work that he's done.
24:20
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, and I always want to congratulate you for
24:21
Speaker 2: a great career and thank you for your dedication to
24:25
Speaker 2: the Charleston Police Department, which growing up, interactions being a
24:30
Speaker 2: business person and being with the downtown association, The police
24:34
Speaker 2: department has always, over my 50-year career, has been top-notch.
24:38
Speaker 4: I appreciate it. Thank you very much.
24:40
Speaker 2: But we appreciate your service.
24:41
Speaker 8: That means a lot.
24:41
Speaker 2: And thank you a lot.
24:42
Speaker 4: Thank you.
24:42
Speaker 2: I'll give you an opportunity, Mr. Hazlett, to thank the
24:46
Speaker 2: people you've mentioned.
24:49
Speaker 3: Charleston Police Department, because here's the thing about it, and
24:53
Speaker 3: I've talked about this with several people.
24:55
Speaker 2: When you're a police officer, the whole family is a
24:57
Speaker 2: police officer.
24:58
Speaker 4: Yes.
24:59
Speaker 3: They have to live the life. So I'm going to
25:00
Speaker 3: give you an opportunity to thank whomever that you want
25:02
Speaker 3: to at this time.
25:03
Speaker 4: Well, like I said earlier, I want to thank the mayor,
25:05
Speaker 4: Mayor Goodwin, for giving me the opportunity to lead the
25:07
Speaker 4: men and women of the Charleston Police Department. Chief Scott Dempsey,
25:10
Speaker 4: Deputy Chief Jason Webb, but more important, my wife.
25:14
Speaker 3: I was going to say you should probably throw that
25:15
Speaker 3: in there.
25:17
Speaker 2: Well, enjoy your return. Big plans today.
25:19
Speaker 4: Yes, so we're having a little party about 11 o'clock
25:21
Speaker 4: at City Hall.
25:22
Speaker 2: Write that down, Perenzino. They'll have cake.
25:25
Speaker 4: They'll have cake and some food. You're more than welcome
25:27
Speaker 4: to stop by and then head into Morkantown.
25:29
Speaker 3: All right.
25:30
Speaker 2: And go Mountaineers tomorrow.
25:31
Speaker 4: Go Mountaineers.
25:31
Speaker 2: Go Mountaineers. All right.
25:33
Speaker 3: Tony Hazlitt, it's always been a pleasure to deal with
25:34
Speaker 3: you on the show here in the past, and I
25:36
Speaker 3: appreciate you being here. And good luck in your retirement.
25:38
Speaker 3: I'm interested to see what will happen next for you.
25:40
Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
25:41
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Speaker 2: Didn't they just come off? They had a gig in Barbersville.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So if you're very active, if you're looking for a
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Molly Sabbath. Molly Sabbath. But they do a little
28:01
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Speaker 8: Everything.
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Speaker 2: If you just like music, that's good music, and these
28:04
Speaker 2: are actual instruments being played and no auto-tune. And actually,
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Speaker 2: Doodle's one of the lead singers, the drummer, and fantastic.
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Speaker 2: I mean, they're just guys there. The guys are all pros.
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Speaker 2: I'm always talking about them.
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Speaker 3: If you've got an event coming up, these are the
28:18
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28:20
Speaker 3: the Jewish Christmas Spectacular that we do right around Christmas
28:23
Speaker 3: every year when I bring Pushkin in and we have
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28:29
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Speaker 2: They're amazing. I mean, literally, these guys are straight-up pro musicians.
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29:15
Speaker 3: have coverage of West Virginia State traveling to Moontownship, Pennsylvania
29:19
Speaker 3: to take on Robert Morris. Of course, WVU opens up
29:22
Speaker 3: tomorrow at home against Coastal Carolina. Marshall travels to Penn State.
29:26
Speaker 3: And part of that game tomorrow, we mentioned it yesterday,
29:29
Speaker 3: they're going to retire Pat White's No. 5 jersey in
29:32
Speaker 3: Morgantown tomorrow. But here's the thing, if you're heading up
29:34
Speaker 3: for the game, I forgot to remind Officer Hazlett about that.
29:38
Speaker 3: You've got to be in your seats by 1145 because
29:42
Speaker 3: the ceremony is going to start at 1145.
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Speaker 2: Because Pat White is a coach. Pat White is a coach.
29:49
Speaker 2: And he's got stuff to do at halftime. And they
29:51
Speaker 2: have a pregame thing. That means you can't day drink
29:56
Speaker 2: unless you start in the morning. Well, it's good advice,
29:58
Speaker 2: I guess.
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Speaker 3: But be in your seat by 1145 because if you're
30:01
Speaker 3: out tailgating, you're going to miss it all. And somebody
30:04
Speaker 3: had asked me if it's going.
30:05
Speaker 2: To be streamed online. To that, I do not know.
30:09
Speaker 2: I'll probably check the mountain, the app they have.
30:11
Speaker 5: Yeah.
30:11
Speaker 2: When they stream that stuff, I'll probably.
30:14
Speaker 3: I mean, eventually, I don't know if it'll be streamed
30:16
Speaker 3: live online, but it will be somewhere. I mean, we'll
30:19
Speaker 3: probably have it at some point.
30:20
Speaker 7: I know.
30:21
Speaker 3: You know, you might check out any of the Mountaineer sites.
30:24
Speaker 2: Maybe the Metro News TV.
30:26
Speaker 10: Yeah.
30:26
Speaker 2: Might have it.
30:28
Speaker 3: I mean, definitely after. I don't know about live. But
30:31
Speaker 3: I do appreciate the text there. Coming up later today,
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Speaker 3: Metro News Midday with 13 News. And tonight, live anchor
30:35
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30:38
Speaker 3: which means we're going to talk food on the Lunch Spot.
30:41
Speaker 3: And we're going to do something a little bit different today. Normally,
30:43
Speaker 3: we feature a different restaurant from around the state of
30:45
Speaker 3: West Virginia. But today, A.B., my co-host, said, let's just
30:48
Speaker 3: talk some tailgate food. And so she did a search,
30:52
Speaker 3: and actually I think somebody nominated a gentleman from here
30:56
Speaker 3: in the Charleston area that they say, and I don't
30:59
Speaker 3: have his name in front of me, but they say
31:01
Speaker 3: that he is– actually, I do have his name in
31:02
Speaker 3: front of me. I'll look it up here in a
31:03
Speaker 3: minute– that he has the premier tailgating if you go
31:07
Speaker 3: to a Mountaineer game. That's what I hear. And so
31:09
Speaker 3: he is going to join us on the show today.
31:11
Speaker 3: I'm definitely looking forward to that, talking a little tailgating.
31:14
Speaker 3: What's your favorite tailgate food?
31:16
Speaker 2: Well, Blanton's. And ice. But food-wise, you know, chicken wings,
31:26
Speaker 2: anything that, I don't know, I just love food. I mean,
31:29
Speaker 2: I'm a fat guy. I love food. Whatever it is.
31:32
Speaker 2: But chicken wings, good chicken wings. What makes a good
31:35
Speaker 2: chicken wing to you? The sauce has to be a
31:38
Speaker 2: little hot, not too hot, and a little sweet. So, like,
31:41
Speaker 2: my favorite sauce is, my favorite wings are at Sam's
31:44
Speaker 2: Uptown because they're actually giant chicken wings. And they have
31:47
Speaker 2: a hot sauce. And a sweet barbecue sauce. And if
31:50
Speaker 2: you get them mixed, that's the perfect. Just go and
31:53
Speaker 2: tell them you want them Tony the Taylor way.
31:54
Speaker 1: Yeah.
31:55
Speaker 2: And they'll go, what? It's a who? It's a Tony
31:57
Speaker 2: the who? Back to the show. Jeff Jenkins, of course,
32:00
Speaker 2: will have the news. TJ will stop by with commentary.
32:02
Speaker 2: The Dean.
32:03
Speaker 3: Hoppy Kirchbull is going to be on the show today.
32:06
Speaker 3: Daniel Woods will get you ready for the weekend in sports.
32:08
Speaker 3: And speaking of which, one of my favorite people in
32:11
Speaker 3: the world, Mountaineer legend Brian Joswiak.
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Speaker 2: Is going to be on the show today. He's a
32:15
Speaker 2: big Amos Steele fan. Oh, is he? Oh, huge Amos
32:18
Speaker 2: Steele fan. Did not know that. All right.
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Speaker 3: I've known Joe's for a number of years. And it
32:23
Speaker 3: is impossible to be in a bad mood when you're
32:26
Speaker 3: around Brian Joswiak.
32:27
Speaker 2: He's the best.
32:28
Speaker 3: I met him at a golf tournament a few years ago,
32:30
Speaker 3: and he and I just hung out all day and And, uh,
32:33
Speaker 3: we talk frequently and I've had him on the show
32:35
Speaker 3: several times and he is, I told somebody this earlier.
32:40
Speaker 3: I said, if I win the lottery, I'm going to
32:42
Speaker 3: hire Brian Joseph. We act just to hang out with
32:44
Speaker 3: me because I guess he reminds me of all the
32:46
Speaker 3: wrestlers I used to travel with, you know, back in those.
32:48
Speaker 2: Days because everything's, Hey, how you doing brother?
32:51
Speaker 3: It's like a mix of Randy Savage and about four
32:53
Speaker 3: or five other guys.
32:54
Speaker 2: He's just a big old him and Brad hunt together. Yeah.
32:57
Speaker 2: And Jack Kessler, those guys, they were, they were, Great
33:01
Speaker 2: clients of mine, just great friends.
33:02
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, Joe Zwiak is going to be on the
33:04
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33:22
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33:25
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33:25
Speaker 2: We're doing the show. And something you may.
33:27
Speaker 3: Want to tune into, the 2 o'clock hour, I'm going
33:30
Speaker 3: to bring in a couple of broadcasting legends. Speedy Bevins,
33:34
Speaker 3: my longtime boss at WVW and Logan, is going to
33:39
Speaker 3: be in. You hear him, of course, on the state
33:40
Speaker 3: basketball tournament each year.
33:41
Speaker 2: And Bob Brunner. I'm going to put those two together.
33:45
Speaker 3: And we are going to talk about some things out
33:48
Speaker 3: of the past, which Labor Day is. We'd be remiss
33:51
Speaker 3: if we didn't. This is actually Speedy's idea. Do you
33:53
Speaker 3: remember the famous murder, the UMWA president, the family, the
33:57
Speaker 3: whole deal?
33:59
Speaker 2: And so we're going to get into all that.
34:01
Speaker 3: Plus, with Labor Day being the kickoff, unofficial kickoff to
34:05
Speaker 3: campaign season, which I counter with they never end now,
34:08
Speaker 3: but it used to be, we're going to talk about
34:09
Speaker 3: some of the big races from back in the day.
34:12
Speaker 3: Talk about some Arch Moore, Jay Rockefeller stuff from 60s
34:15
Speaker 3: and early 70s.
34:16
Speaker 2: And that kind of thing.
34:18
Speaker 6: Awesome.
34:18
Speaker 1: Awesome.
34:18
Speaker 3: That'll be during the 2 o'clock hour coming up on
34:21
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34:25
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34:28
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34:31
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34:34
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34:36
Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever had the wings, though, the
34:39
Speaker 2: one where I live in Taze Valley.
34:40
Speaker 3: I mean, the naked wings, they call them. I've never
34:46
Speaker 3: had chicken wings from Gino's. I can't get past the Pubwich.
34:50
Speaker 8: Yeah.
34:50
Speaker 2: Pubwich, I'm in. And just the way that your Italian
34:53
Speaker 2: ancestors made them, right?
34:54
Speaker 8: Yeah.
34:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, the fancy calzones. They don't call them pepperoni rolls. Oh,
34:59
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Speaker 3: think it's interesting. Governor Justice, it has been, sorry, Senator Justice,
35:42
Speaker 3: it has been rumored that he wants to come back
35:45
Speaker 3: to run for governor. Yesterday on TalkLine, T.J. pressed him
35:48
Speaker 3: on it.
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Speaker 1: T.J.
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Speaker 3: Said, is it safe to say that you are considering
35:52
Speaker 3: running for governor and that you have an interest? And
35:54
Speaker 3: his quote was, I am 100 percent interested. Of course,
35:59
Speaker 3: there's a lead story, WVMetroNews.com. Again, I'm not asking you
36:02
Speaker 3: to take sides or anything like that, but it would
36:04
Speaker 3: be interesting, I think, if Governor Morrissey decides to run
36:10
Speaker 3: for re-election, to have those two in the primary.
36:12
Speaker 2: I think it would be a fascinating primary, plus other
36:14
Speaker 2: people will probably jump in, too, and dilute the water. So,
36:20
Speaker 2: you know, I don't know. It's fascinating. I love politics.
36:23
Speaker 2: It's watching. It's a full-contact sport.
36:25
Speaker 4: It is.
36:26
Speaker 2: It is, indeed. But, yeah, it's just fascinating. All right.
36:29
Speaker 3: So here's why I had you here. You sent me
36:31
Speaker 3: something the other day that I thought was really interesting.
36:34
Speaker 3: And it was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Now, this
36:39
Speaker 3: happened March the 25th, 1911, in New York City. And
36:44
Speaker 3: you may be, it's a tragic story. I mean, what
36:47
Speaker 3: was it, 100?
36:47
Speaker 2: 146 workers died. Were killed on this day.
36:52
Speaker 3: And the reason that it is important beyond just the
36:55
Speaker 3: tragedy of it all is because It actually set off
36:59
Speaker 3: a whole series of things, and this is important around
37:02
Speaker 3: Labor Day, workplace safety and so on and so forth.
37:06
Speaker 2: But tell us the story of.
37:07
Speaker 3: What happened at that facility.
37:10
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, they don't know how the fire actually started.
37:12
Speaker 2: They think it started by a lit cigarette thrown into
37:16
Speaker 2: the scrap box under the cutting table. And to this
37:20
Speaker 2: day in our store, we have a cutting table and
37:22
Speaker 2: a scrap box there. Now, we don't smoke anymore. My
37:24
Speaker 2: dad still smoked, and the table still has all the
37:27
Speaker 2: cigarette burns from it. And that seems like a plausible cause. Yeah,
37:32
Speaker 2: I was doing a.
37:33
Speaker 3: Little reading about this earlier, and they did not allow
37:36
Speaker 3: smoking at that facility. But it was well known that
37:40
Speaker 3: employees would sneak them in.
37:41
Speaker 2: Right, and blow the smoke through their lapel. Most of
37:44
Speaker 2: the cutters were men. Sewers were women and children back then.
37:49
Speaker 2: So the fire started. Time to escape, the doors were locked, padlocked,
37:55
Speaker 2: which they did that for several reasons. The owners, allegedly,
38:00
Speaker 2: to prevent people from going to stairwells to smoke, also
38:03
Speaker 2: to prevent union organizers from coming in. The International Ladies
38:08
Speaker 2: Garment Workers Union was formed around 1900. It was trying
38:12
Speaker 2: to unionize some of these shops because of working conditions
38:16
Speaker 2: and labor rates and various other issues that labor has
38:21
Speaker 2: with management. Um, and that they were trapped and literally
38:26
Speaker 2: people were diving out of the windows to their death.
38:29
Speaker 2: And it's just an amazing, tragic fire. Uh, again, 146
38:36
Speaker 2: people died, 123 women and 23 men.
38:40
Speaker 3: Uh, and the average ages were very young.
38:43
Speaker 2: Well, the, the, they were aged 14 to 23, all
38:46
Speaker 2: Italian and Jewish recent immigrants. Um, that's, uh, just awfully tragic.
38:53
Speaker 2: And sadly, to this day, these same types of tragedies
38:57
Speaker 2: happen in these slave labor countries where you want to
39:00
Speaker 2: get your $ 5 shine shirt and all that. I mean,
39:04
Speaker 2: think about it. They're bringing a shirt all the way
39:07
Speaker 2: across the world to your doorstep for $ 5. Those are
39:10
Speaker 2: slave wage, not wages, slave factories. And the same type
39:16
Speaker 2: of working conditions that these Yeah.
39:18
Speaker 3: We've evolved in this country, but other countries haven't. They
39:23
Speaker 3: haven't evolved.
39:24
Speaker 2: But in terms of Labor Day, this kind of kick-started
39:27
Speaker 2: the International Ladies Garment Workers Union for more members. And
39:34
Speaker 2: as they started pushing for better working conditions, better treatment
39:38
Speaker 2: of the employees, and it established literally collective bargaining rights
39:42
Speaker 2: for garment workers across the country. That turned into that
39:48
Speaker 2: union and then another The tailors union was mostly men.
39:53
Speaker 2: They bonded together and became the Amalgated Clothing and Textiles
39:57
Speaker 2: Workers Union. And if you look in some old suits
40:00
Speaker 2: and stuff, you'll see they label almost everything made in
40:04
Speaker 2: the USA. And it was a union shop. And mostly
40:06
Speaker 2: throughout the United States. The South was still kind of non-union,
40:09
Speaker 2: but most everything was union labeled in union shops. And
40:13
Speaker 2: what they would provide is knowledge of people who know
40:16
Speaker 2: how to operate certain machines, certain skill levels. And the
40:20
Speaker 2: wage rates went with that type of skill from cutters
40:24
Speaker 2: all the way down to just people who sewed on buttons.
40:28
Speaker 2: But as time went on and crazy treaties by both
40:33
Speaker 2: parties that sold out the American worker, the union at
40:37
Speaker 2: its peak in 1969 had 450,000 apparel workers unionized in America. Today,
40:39
Speaker 2: in the same union, less than 7,000 work in the
40:52
Speaker 2: apparel sector.
40:53
Speaker 3: Is that because of what you mentioned earlier?
40:56
Speaker 2: NAFTA.
40:57
Speaker 4: Okay.
40:58
Speaker 2: NAFTA. NAFTA. That's what caused it. I watched 10,000 people
41:03
Speaker 2: get fired one weekend. And the union was not in,
41:07
Speaker 2: you know, they, they had something to do with it too.
41:09
Speaker 1: Sure.
41:09
Speaker 5: Yeah.
41:10
Speaker 2: Uh, they, you know, they didn't see the writing on
41:11
Speaker 2: the wall until it was too late, but, uh, yeah,
41:14
Speaker 2: basically that, but, um, What came out of all this
41:18
Speaker 2: tragedy was better building construction codes for factories and for
41:26
Speaker 2: other buildings, limiting hours of working, child labor laws, workers'
41:33
Speaker 2: compensation came out of this. I think your wife kind
41:36
Speaker 2: of threw that in on that.
41:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were discussing it, and she is in the
41:41
Speaker 3: workers' compensation field now. And that's what she said. There
41:45
Speaker 3: were a lot of reforms. This was one of the
41:47
Speaker 3: things that led to the birth of workers' compensation.
41:49
Speaker 2: It was such a huge tragedy before even Labor Day.
41:53
Speaker 2: I think Labor Day wasn't even founded yet. But, yeah,
41:55
Speaker 2: it's a big deal. And, you know, to this day,
41:59
Speaker 2: in fact, I'll give myself a plug here. On September 17th,
42:03
Speaker 2: we have a Made in USA trunk show. And we're
42:06
Speaker 2: featuring four of our vendors that are all union with
42:10
Speaker 2: apparel workers, Oxford Clothes. Rochester Tailored Clothing, which is the
42:15
Speaker 2: old Hickey Freeman. Hickey Freeman's no longer. The plant's still there.
42:18
Speaker 2: They make my private label clothing. Allen Edmonds Footwear and
42:23
Speaker 2: Lend Belts, all USA made by American workers and union
42:27
Speaker 2: American workers.
42:29
Speaker 3: What would you say? We talked about this a little
42:31
Speaker 3: bit on Midday yesterday, Tony. What would you say to
42:34
Speaker 3: the people that say, OK, it's 2026.
42:36
Speaker 2: We can all.
42:39
Speaker 3: Recognize all the tragedies that happen. And there's a lot
42:43
Speaker 3: of correlation between the mining industry and the steel industries
42:46
Speaker 3: as well. But 2026, I mean, you know, do we
42:51
Speaker 3: really need to still be talking about unions today?
42:53
Speaker 2: Not talking about history, but talking about today. I think so.
42:57
Speaker 2: What I look for in a union, if I were
42:58
Speaker 2: to hire somebody in a union, would be skills, that
43:02
Speaker 2: they're qualified for skill level. electrician's union. I know that
43:07
Speaker 2: they know what they're doing. They put a panel in.
43:08
Speaker 2: Plumber's union. Not much left in the tailor's union, but again,
43:12
Speaker 2: they still have skill levels, and you know what your
43:15
Speaker 2: wage is going in. And I think that's what I
43:19
Speaker 2: look for in a union. In the old days, you know,
43:23
Speaker 2: who knows what happened. The 70s, a little rough. On
43:26
Speaker 2: the unions because of corruption. Let's be fair. Very self-inflicted.
43:35
Speaker 2: The unions were rough on the unions.
43:36
Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
43:37
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
43:37
Speaker 2: And, you know, the upper echelon, you know, they really
43:41
Speaker 2: didn't care about the workers. They cared about themselves. I'm
43:44
Speaker 2: going to tell a story here. Don't get me fired.
43:46
Speaker 2: I'm not going to get you fired, but this guy
43:49
Speaker 2: should have been fired. He was the president of a
43:51
Speaker 2: union here. I'm not going to say which one, but
43:53
Speaker 2: this is back in the 90s. Came to my father's store.
43:56
Speaker 2: He wanted to buy a union-made suit.
43:58
Speaker 7: Great.
43:59
Speaker 2: We had it. It was $ 695. He didn't want to
44:01
Speaker 2: pay that much. Well, the next step down was a
44:04
Speaker 2: non-union USA-made suit and then went down to imports. And
44:09
Speaker 2: he asked me if I could sew a union label
44:11
Speaker 2: into one of the imports. And I'd use an expletive
44:17
Speaker 2: and told him to leave the store because that's a
44:20
Speaker 2: federal crime. But see, that's the problem with some of
44:22
Speaker 2: the unions. The top shelf, they're driving around in their
44:26
Speaker 2: big Lincoln Continentals and their Cadillacs, which is built onto
44:32
Speaker 2: the backs of the workers. Talking to Tony DeTaylor, it
44:36
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Speaker 3: says unions can be a fine thing. They put can
46:31
Speaker 3: in all caps. Unions can be a fine thing. Just
46:33
Speaker 3: keep politics out of them and keep them out of politics.
46:37
Speaker 2: That's the problem. That's where the corruption starts. That and
46:41
Speaker 2: a mob. casinos, you know, they funded Vegas.
46:46
Speaker 3: I want to go back to what, again, we're talking
46:49
Speaker 3: about this, the fire in New York City that you
46:52
Speaker 3: brought to my attention, which was what led to a
46:55
Speaker 3: lot of union uprisings and also led to things like
46:58
Speaker 3: workers' compensation and different worker reform laws and so on
47:01
Speaker 3: and so forth. The majority of the, it's a different,
47:04
Speaker 3: and again, I wasn't around then, and you're old, but
47:07
Speaker 3: you weren't around then either. You know, you talked about
47:11
Speaker 3: the ages of those people killed, 146 people ages 14
47:14
Speaker 3: to 23, primarily, if not all, immigrants.
47:20
Speaker 2: They were fresh off the boat. Italians and.
47:25
Speaker 3: Jewish people. Yeah, Jewish people. I mean, when they came in,
47:29
Speaker 3: they didn't have a whole lot. They just wanted to
47:32
Speaker 3: go to work.
47:32
Speaker 2: They just wanted to go to work. Italians always want
47:35
Speaker 2: to go to work. They built this country. They came
47:37
Speaker 2: here and mined coal.
47:39
Speaker 8: Literally.
47:40
Speaker 2: I mean, look at all the coal mining, how many
47:42
Speaker 2: Italian communities are in coal mining community, Italians. Clarksburg, Fairmont, Logan.
47:46
Speaker 2: How many Italians are in Logan? A lot. Smithers, Boomer. Smithers,
47:51
Speaker 2: we went to college. I went to college in Montgomery.
47:54
Speaker 2: It was called Tallytown. I mean, that's it. But, I mean,
48:00
Speaker 2: Italians came to work.
48:02
Speaker 3: Do you think there's a difference? I know I'm trying
48:05
Speaker 3: not to get you in political waters here. But do
48:07
Speaker 3: you think there's a difference, though, between people– who came
48:10
Speaker 3: here at that time wanting to assimilate to America. Many
48:14
Speaker 3: changed their names and so on and so forth. I
48:16
Speaker 3: don't think they need to do that. As opposed to
48:19
Speaker 3: what we hear, right or wrong, about people coming here
48:23
Speaker 3: and not wanting to assimilate.
48:24
Speaker 2: Press two for Spanish. That's all you need. No, you assimilate.
48:29
Speaker 2: Italians assimilated. My grandfather, who immigrated, was a stonemason from Italy.
48:34
Speaker 2: Him and my grandmother came over. Speaking Italian was forbidden
48:38
Speaker 2: in the household. You had to speak English because that
48:41
Speaker 2: is the language of this country. And he's correct because
48:45
Speaker 2: you had to assimilate it. Now, they still kept their culture.
48:49
Speaker 2: They still kept their foods, which now everybody rips off
48:53
Speaker 2: and uses mafia slurs to promote it. But, you know,
48:57
Speaker 2: that's another thing. We're the only race that you can
48:59
Speaker 2: still be racist against without any repercussions. But, yeah, but
49:05
Speaker 2: also I watch movies. Now the big wave is Chinese, Asians.
49:10
Speaker 2: I think Indians are going to be the next big wave.
49:14
Speaker 2: Most of them assimilate and they keep their culture, but
49:18
Speaker 2: they adapt and keep moving.
49:20
Speaker 3: Well, there was a comedian one time that used the term,
49:25
Speaker 3: America's a melting pot, for God's sakes, melt.
49:28
Speaker 2: You know, you're and.
49:30
Speaker 3: I'm a big believer in you can still hold on
49:32
Speaker 3: to your culture. There's nothing wrong with holding on to
49:33
Speaker 3: your culture. I hold on to your traditions, your holidays,
49:35
Speaker 3: things of that nature.
49:36
Speaker 2: But you have to communicate with other cultures and there's
49:38
Speaker 2: more common language. TJ Meadows, want to weigh in on this, Meadows?
49:43
Speaker 2: I agree.
49:45
Speaker 3: Are you rocking the Tony the Taylor gear over there?
49:48
Speaker 5: I am. Got my WVU gear on from Tony the Taylor.
49:51
Speaker 5: Had some shirts on down at the Greenbrier over there.
49:54
Speaker 2: You like their shirts?
49:55
Speaker 7: I do.
49:55
Speaker 8: They're great.
49:56
Speaker 2: They're good looking. You did a good job picking those out.
49:59
Speaker 2: We all know better. Tony did that.
50:02
Speaker 5: But no, look, I agree. When you decide to become
50:06
Speaker 5: an American, you assimilate. You become American. And as Dave said,
50:10
Speaker 5: you don't leave your culture behind necessarily. You bring the
50:12
Speaker 5: best elements.
50:14
Speaker 2: Of what you had with you.
50:15
Speaker 5: And then you also take in the best elements of
50:17
Speaker 5: what everybody else brought to this country and you become
50:20
Speaker 5: an American.
50:21
Speaker 6: Exactly.
50:21
Speaker 2: I wholeheartedly agree.
50:23
Speaker 3: Texas, look at the dangers now with all the immigrant
50:27
Speaker 3: illegal truck drivers now that do not speak English. You
50:30
Speaker 3: can't read the road signs. Look at the accidents that
50:31
Speaker 3: have happened because of that.
50:33
Speaker 2: I mean, we feature that on the show. That happens,
50:35
Speaker 2: and it's terrible. Again, it goes back to setting standards
50:39
Speaker 2: and holding people to standards.
50:41
Speaker 6: Mr.
50:41
Speaker 3: Perenzino, it's always a pleasure to have you on the show.
50:43
Speaker 2: Thanks for having me. And if you're heading up.
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Speaker 3: To Morgantown tomorrow, you need to get your WVU apparel.
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Speaker 2: They're doing the whiteout tomorrow. We have them today. We
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Speaker 2: have the whiteout today, tomorrow, and I'll be open early Saturday.
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Speaker 2: If you're staying in town, still need a whiteout shirt
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Speaker 2: to come. I'll be at the groove wearing my whiteout
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Speaker 2: stuff and eating smash burgers with Sean Taylor. All right.
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Speaker 2: What you got today?
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Speaker 5: Nick Preservati, state energy czar on this new data center
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Speaker 5: announcement made yesterday. Twelve billion dollars to Mason County. Of course,
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Speaker 5: Hoppy Kirchhoff will join us. I'm sure we'll talk about
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Speaker 5: politics with him. Brian Abraham of AEP. What's it all
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Speaker 5: mean for your power bill?
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Speaker 2: We'll find out. Brian Abraham, Logan High Class of 1988.
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Speaker 2: Represent L.A.
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Speaker 13: L.A.
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Speaker 3: All right, Meadows and Wilson coming up with Talk Line
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Speaker 3: at 10.06. I'll be back later today with Metro News
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Speaker 3: Midday with 13 News and tonight live Anchorman to Bear.
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Speaker 3: No local show on Monday. We'll see you on this
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Speaker 3: show on Tuesday. Until then, have fun and love somebody.