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11/24/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Scott Edwards, Jason Webb and Danny Jones · The Dave Allen Show

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Speaker 2: time off. That announcement coming over the weekend that state
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Speaker 2: workers will get off half the day on Wednesday. Of
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Speaker 2: so on Wednesday and they don't have to come back
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Speaker 2: to work till Monday. So again we'll get into that
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Speaker 2: coming up a little bit later on. Also, there is
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Speaker 2: an effort on to get new police officers for the
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Speaker 2: city of Charleston, Chief Deputy of the Department to Jason
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Speaker 4: I want to.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to the show now the mayor of the city
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Speaker 2: of Hurricane Scott Edwards. Good morning, Mayor, welcome to the show.
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Speaker 5: Good morning to you. How are you doing.
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Speaker 2: I am doing. I am doing great man. Thanksgiving week
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Speaker 2: is here means lots of turkey and all the sides.
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Speaker 2: The Black Friday sales are going to be going on
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Speaker 2: in small business Saturday.
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Speaker 5: Talk about it absolutely well. I'm speaking of food. I'm
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Speaker 5: sitting in the woods right now hoping to hoping to
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Speaker 5: get the big one, but I haven't seen anything yet.
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Speaker 2: You hold on, hold on, hold on. You actually took
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Speaker 2: time from sitting in the woods to call under the.
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Speaker 5: Show now not the show, to talk to you.
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Speaker 2: Ah you well, you know you're on the air, right.
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Speaker 5: I know it's only because it's only because of you
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Speaker 5: that I'm doing this.
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Speaker 2: I feel privileged, Mayor, I feel.
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Speaker 5: Privileged, absolutely absolutely. I'm out at my farm in Hamlin
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Speaker 5: and waiting for the big one. All right, it's a
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Speaker 5: beautiful day, but small business Saritay is coming up. And
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Speaker 5: earlier this morning, while I was in the woods, I
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Speaker 5: issued a proclamation. I pushed it on Facebook, talking about
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Speaker 5: small business starity and and you know my feelings on this.
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Speaker 5: It should be every day. I mean, I push our
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Speaker 5: small businesses each and every day. But I really hope
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Speaker 5: that this week and especially Saturday, people people really really
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Speaker 5: make a difference because a lot of these small businesses,
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Speaker 5: this Saturday is a big deal for them and get
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Speaker 5: them over the hump. It is a huge deal. And
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Speaker 5: we have a ton of small businesses in Hurricane all
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Speaker 5: throughout Putnam County and and our whole region. Really, we
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Speaker 5: want everybody to shop local. Wherever you're listening from, go
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Speaker 5: local and shop local. There's like thirty some big and
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Speaker 5: small businesses in America. It's the backbone of the American
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Speaker 5: economy treeions of dollars. I mean, it's it's what we
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Speaker 5: need to do we need to keep money lobal.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent. We're talking to Hurricane mayor Scott Edwards. Now,
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Speaker 2: look at if you you get a deer that comes
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Speaker 2: in your path and you need to you know, just
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Speaker 2: tell me to be quiet. That's fine. I mean, you know,
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Speaker 2: I don't want to scare it all.
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Speaker 5: Nobody's ever told you to be quiet.
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Speaker 2: Well, they have, It just doesn't work. It doesn't work
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Speaker 2: in the pass. Talk about some of the small businesses
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Speaker 2: that you have in hurricane that people may not be
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Speaker 2: aware of. And as you said, this is this is
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Speaker 2: across the country thing, and we're going to be talking
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Speaker 2: in detail about this over the next couple of days
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Speaker 2: on hearing on Metro News mid Day as well. But
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Speaker 2: talk about some of the businesses that you have in hurricane.
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Speaker 5: You know, some of the few that come to mind,
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Speaker 5: like with farm Supply. I know that sounds it's a
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Speaker 5: small business. They have lots of stuff that people should
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Speaker 5: just just buy every day there. But if you want
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Speaker 5: to shop for Christmas like oodles, I love oodles on
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Speaker 5: Main Street. I shot there from my wife for all
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Speaker 5: kinds of occasions and Sunny Sky's Boutique. Now I don't
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Speaker 5: shop for myself there, but for my wife and my daughters.
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Speaker 5: A really awesome one on Main Street is Bearwood. And
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Speaker 5: you've been to Bearwood many times, Dave and and the
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Speaker 5: all the all the products that are made out of
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Speaker 5: out of locally sourced wood. All your Christmas shopping can
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Speaker 5: be done in Bearwood. Or go see my friend Don
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Speaker 5: bryll is up up at Calvin Brool's Jewelers in tays Valley.
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Speaker 5: Or you know, we have a skate park right right,
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Speaker 5: Sea Park, a Willbillys by your kid, a scooter, a skateboard,
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Speaker 5: a mountain bike, and there's so many others of iris.
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Speaker 5: Any boutique and bell Knapped Dough Company one of the
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Speaker 5: favorite places to eat, you know. You know, let's more
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Speaker 5: food ideas and so many people today they always say, man,
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Speaker 5: we need more restaurants, we need.
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Speaker 2: More, which I laugh at when I hear that, Mayor
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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie to you. I actually laugh out loud.
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Speaker 2: I actually l o l when I hear that in Tays.
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Speaker 5: Valid So you think about you think about Sergio's, Barberino's fireside,
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Speaker 5: bear Ways Bridge Cafe and Bistro, on our barbecue, even
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Speaker 5: Fairley's famous hot dogs right and Hurricane and then you
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Speaker 5: can go over to the Sweet mom is right across
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Speaker 5: in the reservoir for all the sweets you can ever
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Speaker 5: think of. And this is not an inclusive list, by
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Speaker 5: the way. Oh yeah, that's no safe imagination. This is
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Speaker 5: a few I took quick notes on while sitting here
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Speaker 5: looking for the big buck.
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Speaker 2: And I do want to mention because since you know,
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Speaker 2: you're the mayor of Hurricane, but we are talking about things,
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Speaker 2: you know, up and down the valley there there is
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Speaker 2: going to be an event at Area thirty four on Saturday.
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Speaker 2: They always blow it out in there. I talked to
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Speaker 2: Ashley offer Glance from the Chamber of Commerce on Friday
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Speaker 2: about that there's an event at Area thirty four, also
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Speaker 2: a huge event, a vendor event. I think there's over
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Speaker 2: fifty or sixty vendors are going to set up shop
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Speaker 2: at Valley Park on Saturday as well.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, and we all look forward to that and it
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Speaker 5: should be big, and I really hope it's big. We
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Speaker 5: I mean, if everybody can just spend to make an effort,
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Speaker 5: to spend just a couple extra dollars at a locally
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Speaker 5: owned business, is yourself go there instead of going to
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Speaker 5: a big box and if everybody does that, just make
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Speaker 5: one small even a small purchase will launch these businesses
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Speaker 5: way over the finish line for the year. And the
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Speaker 5: other thing it keeps money local and we can spend
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Speaker 5: it again and it gets spent again and again and
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Speaker 5: it stays local. It does not leave leave Hurrikan or
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Speaker 5: Putnam County. And we want that. It helps our economy. Bro,
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Speaker 5: I mean, it is the backbone of our local economy.
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Speaker 2: And as people listeners mayor have heard me say time
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Speaker 2: and time again, these are the folks buy and large
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Speaker 2: that donate to your Little League teams. These are the
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Speaker 2: folks that will donate to your church event and things
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Speaker 2: of that nature. Is this is where it goes. And
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying that major corporations don't do that from
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Speaker 2: time to time. And look, I have said many times
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Speaker 2: before that these major big box stores or whatever, they
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Speaker 2: employ a lot of West Virginians and there's a place
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Speaker 2: for that one hundred percent. I get that. But these
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Speaker 2: are the ones that are more than likely if you
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Speaker 2: come in and say, hey, can we have a donation
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Speaker 2: for our Scout troop for the band or major rats
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Speaker 2: or cheerly heads. What are the kis Be. These are
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Speaker 2: the ones that all that always step up to the plate, Daves.
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Speaker 5: I believe every one of those that I mentioned. I
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Speaker 5: could walk into today and say hey, I need a
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Speaker 5: donation for whatever, the Little League, the Scouts, that the cheerleaders, whatever,
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Speaker 5: and they would I would walk out with either cash
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Speaker 5: or check.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I mean that that's that's small business USA and we
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Speaker 5: need to support small business USSA. And now's our time again,
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Speaker 5: not just Necessariday, start today. I mean, let's let her
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Speaker 5: rip and just you know, skip the big box store
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Speaker 5: this week and go go small business, go down to Oodles.
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Speaker 5: I'm actually heading to Doodles this week. Hope my wife's
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Speaker 5: not not listening, but I want to get some Christmas
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Speaker 5: gifts at Oodles. Lisa Busti's the owner. She's wonderful and
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Speaker 5: has a unbelievable selection of anything you could possibly imagine.
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Speaker 5: I walk in the door and she says for your wife.
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Speaker 5: I say yes, and she goes and picks me out
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Speaker 5: three or four things. It's great, indeed.
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Speaker 2: And uh and you know, gift cards are all the rage,
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Speaker 2: you know from all these differ places, these local places.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm going to say that ninety nine percent,
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Speaker 2: but ninety nine percent likelihood that they all offer gift
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Speaker 2: certificates of some kind, so you could go. You mentioned,
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Speaker 2: we mentioned some of the fine restaurants that we have
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Speaker 2: in Tays Valley, the Fairways, Fireside, eleanor Barbecue. You could
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Speaker 2: go in there and you could purchase maybe for a
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Speaker 2: family member or maybe if you do a drawing at
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Speaker 2: work and you don't always know what Bob from accounting wants.
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Speaker 2: You know, everybody likes food. You and I take it
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Speaker 2: to a different level, mayor, but I mean, but everybody,
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Speaker 2: but everybody likes food. Go in the well of this
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Speaker 2: places and get a gift card or gift certificate.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, I'm sure they all offer it. I know, Bobrino's, Sergio's,
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Speaker 5: I mean, I know they do. I buy them all
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Speaker 5: the time and have them on my desk to give
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Speaker 5: away when when need be. So yes, just go buy
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Speaker 5: a gift card. Again, let's all together, everybody's listening. Push
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Speaker 5: these small businesses across the finish line. I mean, really
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Speaker 5: make them have an awesome year. And if each of
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Speaker 5: us do something, one little something instead of clicking a
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Speaker 5: button ordering from Amazon, drive down to you know, drive
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Speaker 5: down to do Willbillies or Bearwood or Sunny Skies or
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Speaker 5: Oodles or wherever or wherever you're at and buy something.
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Speaker 5: I know it's so easy to sit on the couch
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Speaker 5: and click. I do it all the time. But this week,
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Speaker 5: go buy something, just one thing, Go buy local, and
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Speaker 5: it will make a massive, massive difference.
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Speaker 2: What's on the horizon for Hurricane I mean, as we
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Speaker 2: head into the new year, anything, anything big exciting we
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Speaker 2: should know about. I mean, I know you've got the
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Speaker 2: housing project. I know there's and I might not say hurrican,
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Speaker 2: I'm not just talking about the city of Hurkan. I'm
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Speaker 2: talking about the entire Taes Valley area. I know, I
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Speaker 2: saw they're really making progress on a new restaurant facility
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Speaker 2: there as well. What's uh, what are you looking at
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Speaker 2: over the next couple of months as we head into
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Speaker 2: the new year.
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Speaker 5: Well, there's lots of stuff. A few things that are
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Speaker 5: on the cusp of being able to be announced but
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Speaker 5: not quite yet. And uh, you mentioned the new the
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Speaker 5: new restaurant. That's that's happening soon and some announcements will
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Speaker 5: be coming out about that as well. If you're referring
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Speaker 5: to the walm Taye Valley Road and that'll that'll be
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Speaker 5: awesome as well. Uh, they're soft open right now and
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Speaker 5: they'll heard open in a week or so, I believe,
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Speaker 5: so it'll be awesome. But there is actually a lot
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Speaker 5: of stuff that's happening. I expect quarter one of twenty
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Speaker 5: twenty six will be huge for a lot of people.
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Speaker 2: All Right, Well, Mayor wish you luck out there on
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Speaker 2: the range today. You say you're hunting in Hamlin. Is
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Speaker 2: that where you're out in Lincoln County?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I have one hundred acre farm out here in
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Speaker 5: Hamlin and it's beautiful. It's about thirty seven degrees, the
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Speaker 5: sun's up and it's it's beautiful out here. Right now.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to ask you how the fog is, because
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Speaker 2: it was pretty intense when I drove in about seven
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Speaker 2: o'clock or so this morning from the valley.
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Speaker 5: That's what's making it beautiful. There's still there's still fog
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Speaker 5: cover and it's but it's awesome.
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Speaker 2: It's awesome, all right, Hurricane Mayor Scott Edwards. I appreciate
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Speaker 2: you being here, man. Good luck to you and I'll
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Speaker 2: probably see you around this Saturday.
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Speaker 5: Thank you, sir.
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Speaker 2: All right, that's the mayor of Hurricane Scott Edwards again,
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Speaker 2: and I like what the mayor said. We should support
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Speaker 2: these small businesses year round. But if you but if
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Speaker 2: you can, you know, and we focus on hurricane this
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Speaker 2: time around, but there's plenty in South Charleston, Saint Albans, Charleston,
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Speaker 10: Ultimately, I'd like to get us to one seventy three.
16:41
Speaker 10: We haven't been there, and I would say probably over
16:43
Speaker 10: a decade, but anywhere you get. So right now, I
16:46
Speaker 10: think we have a round one fifty one, one fifty two.
16:49
Speaker 10: We are fine as far as providing services go. Our
16:52
Speaker 10: specialized units are are fully staffed. But the more officers
16:56
Speaker 10: we have we could prepare for retirements down the road.
17:00
Speaker 10: It allows us to maybe put some officers in specialized
17:03
Speaker 10: units that could use some more you know, some more
17:06
Speaker 10: people in there, some more some people to get stuff
17:09
Speaker 10: jobs done that need done outside of the patrol division.
17:12
Speaker 10: So anything extra we have we can always dedicate to
17:14
Speaker 10: the Hybrid Unit. Those are the guys you see out
17:16
Speaker 10: riding the bikes and dealing with some of the populations
17:19
Speaker 10: that are a little less desirable for some people, you know,
17:23
Speaker 10: just making sure that the quality of life crimes are
17:25
Speaker 10: getting covered and make sure that we're doing the best
17:27
Speaker 10: we can to just you know, keep keep everyone out
17:30
Speaker 10: and happy and enjoy the city of Charleston.
17:33
Speaker 2: Talk about some of those different departments that you have
17:35
Speaker 2: within the department. I mean, you talked about the Hybrid Unit,
17:37
Speaker 2: but give me an example of.
17:38
Speaker 10: Okay, if we have the Criminal Investigation Division, it's our
17:41
Speaker 10: detective Bureau, Charleston's not kind of like the bigger cities
17:45
Speaker 10: that have, you know, someone dedicated to property crimes, someone
17:49
Speaker 10: dedicated to murder, someone dedicated to domestics. We kind of
17:52
Speaker 10: run the gambit of all of those things as a detective.
17:54
Speaker 10: Charleston Police departmacy where many hats as a detective. We
17:58
Speaker 10: also have the Metro Drug Unit. We have several officers
18:00
Speaker 10: assigned to that. They focused primarily on larger drug trafficking organizations.
18:05
Speaker 10: Larger drug trafficking organizations that would basically do the larger
18:13
Speaker 10: level drug deals. And then we have a new unit.
18:15
Speaker 10: We call it the Strategic Response Unit. It replaced our
18:19
Speaker 10: old Tree Crimes unit. It's kind of gone a new direction.
18:22
Speaker 10: It's more of a community oriented special project unit. So
18:27
Speaker 10: the best example I can think of recently is we
18:29
Speaker 10: had those overdoses over on the West Side and East
18:32
Speaker 10: End where they had mixed some bad dope and we
18:36
Speaker 10: were basically had to drop some guys in that area
18:39
Speaker 10: get the problem solved quickly because people were overdosing, and
18:42
Speaker 10: we were able to do that with this new unit.
18:45
Speaker 10: And stuff like that we can do as long as
18:46
Speaker 10: we keep our numbers up.
18:48
Speaker 2: So where are the people going. And by the way,
18:50
Speaker 2: I do want to say this is not limited to
18:52
Speaker 2: the Charleston area. I mean I have folks from the
18:54
Speaker 2: Sheriff's department on every city in West Virginia and every
18:58
Speaker 2: city across the country would probably right now that we
19:01
Speaker 2: need more bodies. If they leave the Charleston Police Department,
19:04
Speaker 2: for example, where are they going? Are they going outside
19:07
Speaker 2: law enforcement in general? Or where are people going?
19:09
Speaker 10: Some are some are leaving. I know I had a
19:12
Speaker 10: unique perspective when I worked at m Dent before this,
19:15
Speaker 10: where I supervise officers from every department, so I got
19:17
Speaker 10: a chance to Some of them are leaving to go
19:19
Speaker 10: sell fire extinguishers because they paid more money. Some people
19:22
Speaker 10: are leaving just to be honest. Police works kind of
19:26
Speaker 10: become like mercenary work to an extent. We have a
19:28
Speaker 10: certified bonus that we offered to certified officers. You come here,
19:32
Speaker 10: you work for three years, you get a fifteen thousand
19:33
Speaker 10: dollars bonus in like three increments. Other departments add the
19:38
Speaker 10: same thing. So sometimes you have police officers that are
19:40
Speaker 10: young and they'll go from one police department, get their
19:42
Speaker 10: certified bonus, work those years to pay off. Make sure
19:45
Speaker 10: they don't pay that bonus back, and then they'll go
19:46
Speaker 10: to another agency pays relatively the same, get that bonus,
19:51
Speaker 10: kind of bounce around a little bit until they want
19:53
Speaker 10: to settle down, and then you've got just police work
19:56
Speaker 10: as a whole. It's a hard profession. So just because
19:58
Speaker 10: you get hired as a police officer at the Charles's
20:00
Speaker 10: Police Department doesn't mean you're going to make it through
20:03
Speaker 10: the academy. Doesn't mean you're going to make it through
20:04
Speaker 10: our FTO program. We have to vet the people to
20:07
Speaker 10: work force, and that's a year long process a lot
20:09
Speaker 10: of times, so we may I will say this year
20:12
Speaker 10: we've been pretty lucky. We've had a class of eleven,
20:15
Speaker 10: which was the largest one we've had in I think
20:18
Speaker 10: my class was two thousand and five and we had fifteen.
20:20
Speaker 10: I think it was the largest class since then. But
20:23
Speaker 10: we lost I think roughly three or four of those
20:25
Speaker 10: individuals from that class just because they couldn't make it
20:27
Speaker 10: through the academy or the FTO program.
20:29
Speaker 6: We've got five we're going to try to hire coming
20:31
Speaker 6: up soon.
20:32
Speaker 10: Those things where you can't guarantee that somebody you hire
20:35
Speaker 10: makes it out of the academy kind of makes it
20:37
Speaker 10: hard to deal with these issues too.
20:39
Speaker 2: So talk about what goes on when you go through
20:43
Speaker 2: the academy or the other training programs.
20:44
Speaker 10: What is that like a lot of it for what
20:48
Speaker 10: we noticed to begin with, we basically to help people
20:51
Speaker 10: through that process. We started hiring them four to six
20:53
Speaker 10: weeks out, which a lot of that is just getting
20:56
Speaker 10: people in early. They'll work with some of our officers
20:59
Speaker 10: on their physical fitness level so that when they get
21:01
Speaker 10: to the academy it's not such a shock to them.
21:04
Speaker 10: I was guilty of it too when I came out
21:06
Speaker 10: of high school. I spent quite a few years playing
21:08
Speaker 10: video games and eat potato chips and drinking the mountain
21:10
Speaker 10: and do stuff like that. And then when I went
21:13
Speaker 10: to uh TO.
21:15
Speaker 2: For me, it was the Air Force.
21:16
Speaker 10: I went to the Air Force and it was an
21:17
Speaker 10: I open experience to take my first PT test because
21:19
Speaker 10: I thought I was in good shape because I'd been
21:20
Speaker 10: halfway's in shape in high school, and.
21:22
Speaker 11: It turns out I was not.
21:23
Speaker 10: So what people that get off the couch and come
21:25
Speaker 10: to our test and not do so well on the
21:27
Speaker 10: physical fitness side of the test, and we'll have them
21:29
Speaker 10: come back and they'll they'll do better the next time.
21:31
Speaker 10: But we try to get them physically prepared for the
21:33
Speaker 10: academy because it's a very mentally taxing, almost like a
21:36
Speaker 10: paramilitary style boot camp type settings.
21:39
Speaker 2: That's what I've always been told. It's not it's it
21:41
Speaker 2: is physical, but there's a lot of mental aspects of
21:43
Speaker 2: going to it too well.
21:44
Speaker 10: Yeah, So we do the best we can to prepare
21:46
Speaker 10: them physically, so the mental side of it's a lot easier,
21:49
Speaker 10: so and the physical. The mental side of it's you know,
21:51
Speaker 10: you're you're looking at sleep deporation, do distress you're looking
21:54
Speaker 10: at at maybe not the the.
21:57
Speaker 6: Environment you're used to.
21:59
Speaker 10: I would not say that academy staff is your mother
22:01
Speaker 10: or father or someone who's That's not why they're there.
22:04
Speaker 6: They're not there.
22:04
Speaker 10: They're there to weed out the people, and I think
22:06
Speaker 10: West Virginia does a really good job of it. They're
22:08
Speaker 10: there to weed out the people who don't handle stressed
22:10
Speaker 10: very well, so that you don't you don't have these
22:12
Speaker 10: split second decisions where you have to, you know, make
22:14
Speaker 10: a decision that affects somebody's life and you've just vay
22:17
Speaker 10: porlocked because of stress. So we do a good job
22:20
Speaker 10: of weading those out that also costs us some applicants
22:22
Speaker 10: every time too, and rightfully so.
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Speaker 10: My mother told me when I was six, I always
22:55
Speaker 10: want to be either a garbage man or a police officer.
22:57
Speaker 6: So I went with.
22:58
Speaker 10: Police officer, but the uniform that you wanted to know.
23:02
Speaker 10: My father worked in ems. He was notorious for a
23:05
Speaker 10: few passing on the side of the road that had
23:07
Speaker 10: a flat tire. If you saw someone in need, you
23:10
Speaker 10: stopped and helped him, and I think he kind of
23:12
Speaker 10: instilled that sense of service into me, and I grew
23:14
Speaker 10: up reading science fiction and fantasy novels, and there was
23:17
Speaker 10: always that going out and saving the world aspect of
23:21
Speaker 10: those novels and videos and movies that I really enjoyed.
23:24
Speaker 10: And I just generally just wanted to help people, which
23:26
Speaker 10: sounds really cheesy and cliche, but that's true.
23:28
Speaker 6: It's kind of where I'm at.
23:29
Speaker 2: So it's a special type person. And this is like
23:33
Speaker 2: the understatement of the year, officer. It's a special type
23:36
Speaker 2: person that could do police work, especially in twenty twenty five,
23:40
Speaker 2: because you know there are in the in the I
23:44
Speaker 2: don't know how. I don't know how you guys do it,
23:46
Speaker 2: and gals, I don't know how you do it. I mean,
23:48
Speaker 2: you have my utmost respect for having to do a
23:52
Speaker 2: job that in some instances, and I don't think this
23:56
Speaker 2: is true of the general population, but in some instances
23:58
Speaker 2: has become almost villa over the last couple of years.
24:01
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been rough.
24:02
Speaker 10: And I'll say this if I could, just to go
24:04
Speaker 10: back on what I said earlier. I think early when
24:06
Speaker 10: I talked about the hybrid unit, I mentioned that they
24:08
Speaker 10: deal with the less than desirable, and that's more of
24:10
Speaker 10: a public perception that's not the perception of our officers.
24:13
Speaker 10: So what I will say about police work that I
24:16
Speaker 10: think is unique is that a lot of times you
24:19
Speaker 10: get into it and you have to do patrol for
24:20
Speaker 10: a couple of years just to get your feet kind
24:22
Speaker 10: of under you and understand law and stuff like that.
24:24
Speaker 10: But we get a chance to work with like the
24:26
Speaker 10: Cares team through Charleston, the Hybrid Unit's worth the care
24:29
Speaker 10: from Charleston. And if you wanted to maybe do police
24:32
Speaker 10: work but kind of be a little more on the
24:34
Speaker 10: social work side, that gives you an opportunity to help
24:37
Speaker 10: the people that are less fortunes than you that and
24:39
Speaker 10: get them into services they need and try to try
24:42
Speaker 10: to help them get off the streets or get off
24:45
Speaker 10: addiction stuff like that.
24:46
Speaker 6: And you've got you know.
24:47
Speaker 10: Swat teams and boat teams and dive teams and just
24:52
Speaker 10: stuff that you can look back on the end of
24:54
Speaker 10: your life and say, hey, I really did something.
24:56
Speaker 5: You know.
24:56
Speaker 2: So if people listening right now and they have an
24:58
Speaker 2: interest in this, and now I want to I want
25:00
Speaker 2: to learn more information, or maybe I want to you know,
25:03
Speaker 2: I'm seeking information from my child or my grandchild. What
25:07
Speaker 2: do they need to do? I would go to our
25:09
Speaker 2: Facebook page.
25:10
Speaker 10: First, there's several postings for one our test are I
25:13
Speaker 10: think our next one's December sixth, Then we have another
25:15
Speaker 10: one in January on the twenty fourth, I believe. But
25:18
Speaker 10: if you have questions, I know I'll plug Sergeant Travis Bales,
25:20
Speaker 10: he's in our Community Service Division, he's the commandity, does
25:23
Speaker 10: a lot of our recruitment stuff. And then Sergeant Dennis West,
25:26
Speaker 10: he's in our Training division. Those guys kind of work
25:28
Speaker 10: hand in hand on just getting people into the profession
25:32
Speaker 10: and helping them through. I mean, we'll help you study,
25:34
Speaker 10: will help you get in shape, We'll do everything we
25:36
Speaker 10: can to make sure you're ready for the academy.
25:37
Speaker 6: And those are the guys to talk to you.
25:38
Speaker 10: If you just want to ask questions, you can call
25:40
Speaker 10: the Chief's office, you can call any of our offices,
25:42
Speaker 10: and we'll gladly try to answer questions as the best
25:45
Speaker 10: we can put people's mind at ease.
25:47
Speaker 2: So not talking from a physical aspect, but what from
25:52
Speaker 2: a mental aspect or anything other than physical? What makes
25:56
Speaker 2: a good officer? What are you? What are you looking for?
25:59
Speaker 2: Not not how many miles they can run or push
26:01
Speaker 2: off anything I get, but from you know, when you
26:03
Speaker 2: from a character standpoint, what makes a good police officer.
26:06
Speaker 10: So we always want someone who's got a lot of integrity.
26:10
Speaker 10: I like somebody that can work without a lot of direction,
26:13
Speaker 10: because when you think about it, you're a patrol officer.
26:15
Speaker 10: It's two o'clock in the morning, one o'clock in the morning,
26:17
Speaker 10: and you get a call and it's you and maybe
26:19
Speaker 10: one other person, and I'm at home in bed.
26:21
Speaker 5: I know.
26:22
Speaker 10: One of the things that I always appreciated is the
26:24
Speaker 10: fact that I can sleep through the night not worrying
26:25
Speaker 10: about the decision my police officer make. Is so if
26:27
Speaker 10: you could, you have good common sense, can make a
26:29
Speaker 10: good decision, You work well without having to be told
26:33
Speaker 10: what to do every step of the way. Those are
26:35
Speaker 10: all great characteristics for a police officer. And of course
26:38
Speaker 10: you want integrity and you want people that you can trust.
26:40
Speaker 10: If you're taking money off of somebody and putting proper
26:42
Speaker 10: in evidence, we don't have to worry about that missing
26:44
Speaker 10: and stuff like that. We want people of integrity. We
26:46
Speaker 10: want the best of the best, and I understand that's
26:49
Speaker 10: tough to get sometimes.
26:50
Speaker 2: Well, we wish you the best. We'll have you back
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26:55
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Speaker 6: How you doing, man, I'm doing fine, Thank you? All right.
31:15
Speaker 2: First of all, I got to tell you I finished
31:17
Speaker 2: the book, all right. You came in here last week
31:19
Speaker 2: and you gave me a copy, and I read a
31:21
Speaker 2: great deal of it Monday night, and then I had
31:25
Speaker 2: some stuff going on Tuesday night, and I finished a
31:27
Speaker 2: little bit Wednesday. I think Thursday night, I was completely
31:30
Speaker 2: done with the book. Excellent job, my friend. It was
31:33
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31:34
Speaker 6: You read about my time at the Daniel Byn.
31:36
Speaker 2: I read everything in it cover to cover, and I'll
31:40
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31:46
Speaker 2: I thought you when I asked you once before about
31:50
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31:53
Speaker 2: may hurt some people or whatever. The only person who's
31:56
Speaker 2: going to walk away from that book being hurt is you.
32:00
Speaker 2: You allowed people in the book to give their real
32:06
Speaker 2: feelings about about Danny Jones, and some of them I
32:10
Speaker 2: don't want to say that they were mean or anything
32:12
Speaker 2: like that, but you get called to the carpet by
32:14
Speaker 2: a couple of those people.
32:15
Speaker 6: In the book. Yeah, yeah, Well Tom Lane was the
32:19
Speaker 6: head of the Needle Caucus, and he was he was
32:22
Speaker 6: pretty rough. But the chapter after that with jb Acres
32:26
Speaker 6: and jb Acres exposed that needlele change for that so
32:31
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32:35
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32:37
Speaker 6: Cable Hunton they closed their Yeah yeah, I knew what
32:41
Speaker 6: they were doing. Yeah yeah.
32:43
Speaker 2: But the book is very interesting in the way it's written,
32:46
Speaker 2: because I only knew before I sat down to read it, Danny,
32:49
Speaker 2: what you told me on the show. So I didn't
32:50
Speaker 2: have any idea. But it's written. Some of it's written
32:53
Speaker 2: by you others or you know, it'll it will say,
32:56
Speaker 2: you know, fill in name here reflects on this particular situation.
33:00
Speaker 2: And you have a lot of a lot of people
33:03
Speaker 2: that that weighed in on the book.
33:06
Speaker 6: There's a guy that had a chapter named after him,
33:09
Speaker 6: Richard Butler, and I think that I hadn't been for him,
33:15
Speaker 6: I'm not sure i'd be sitting here today because we
33:18
Speaker 6: were just bouncing around the hub pool room. And and
33:22
Speaker 6: he got offered that job the twenties, and then George
33:25
Speaker 6: went up after him. Well I couldn't go. I was
33:28
Speaker 6: I looked fourteen years old. So I went back to
33:31
Speaker 6: the Sterling stayed there til I closed. And at that
33:34
Speaker 6: point I became in my life, became indelibly hooked to
33:40
Speaker 6: the streets. I was no longer anything but a street
33:44
Speaker 6: kid after that.
33:45
Speaker 2: And here's the interesting thing about it. And somebody pointed
33:49
Speaker 2: this out to me the other day, and talking that
33:51
Speaker 2: hadn't read the book that talked to me about it, though,
33:53
Speaker 2: they said, well, you know it was their feeling that
33:57
Speaker 2: you refer to yourself as being from the from the streets,
34:00
Speaker 2: but you came from a life of privilege. However, when
34:05
Speaker 2: you read the book and you talked about that a
34:06
Speaker 2: little bit here, I don't say that you turned your
34:09
Speaker 2: back on that, but but you didn't really fit in
34:12
Speaker 2: in your own house, is what it seems, because and
34:15
Speaker 2: I don't mean that as a criticism, I mean you
34:20
Speaker 2: just didn't. I mean that didn't seem to be the
34:22
Speaker 2: life that you want. And you've led a very successful life,
34:26
Speaker 2: but you did that pretty much on your own. I mean,
34:28
Speaker 2: without the without the money and whatever with the family.
34:32
Speaker 6: I would have left that house as soon as I
34:36
Speaker 6: had eighteen years old. But I had my race car
34:39
Speaker 6: out in the garage, and I had my frame and
34:42
Speaker 6: my chainfall and had all my tools, and I built
34:46
Speaker 6: a race car out there. So I left when I
34:50
Speaker 6: was drafted. Otherwise i'd have been gone.
34:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, you did a book signing at Taylor Books on
34:56
Speaker 2: Saturday afternoon. I saw a couple of posts on social
34:58
Speaker 2: media from people about that. How did that go?
35:01
Speaker 5: Went?
35:01
Speaker 14: Real?
35:01
Speaker 6: Well? Ran out of books? Yeah, it was you know.
35:06
Speaker 6: Back in those days. See, you could stay at the
35:08
Speaker 6: Roughner Hotel and with a bathroom for fifteen dollars a week.
35:14
Speaker 6: You could stay with a bathroom down the hall for
35:17
Speaker 6: ten dollars a week. So that's where I lived if
35:21
Speaker 6: I hadn't had the race car. But I had the
35:24
Speaker 6: race car in the summer sixty nine when I was eighteen,
35:29
Speaker 6: so I couldn't live. I turned nineteen in August and
35:35
Speaker 6: was drafted in September, and by November I was gone.
35:40
Speaker 2: I can't imagine what it would have been like growing
35:46
Speaker 2: up and just being living your life in the summer
35:50
Speaker 2: of nineteen sixty nine in Charleston, was Virginia, or any
35:52
Speaker 2: city for that matter. Yeah, because you know, and we
35:55
Speaker 2: have a tendency to go back and romanticize, you know,
35:58
Speaker 2: times that this was the greatest decade or that was
35:59
Speaker 2: a great this decade. There's good and bad in all
36:01
Speaker 2: of them. But just knowing what was going on in
36:04
Speaker 2: the country in nineteen sixty nine with Vietnam, with that
36:07
Speaker 2: didn't effect with us well, but I mean just I
36:10
Speaker 2: get I don't know.
36:11
Speaker 6: Well, I mean it affected you because you were going
36:13
Speaker 6: to get drafted, right, yeah, And I was going to
36:15
Speaker 6: get drafted. I didn't go to I didn't go to college,
36:19
Speaker 6: so I was going to get drafted. All my friends
36:23
Speaker 6: got drafted. I mean my friends that I hung out with,
36:26
Speaker 6: and some of them are still alive. But there's so much.
36:33
Speaker 6: There were a lot of First thing, let me tell
36:36
Speaker 6: you something something in the book. I did not allow
36:41
Speaker 6: street hookers to sit at my bar. Okay, you know
36:47
Speaker 6: girls have come up and try to pick up guys first,
36:52
Speaker 6: saying it's not good for business. They come in, guy
36:56
Speaker 6: buys one drink and they're gone. Well, how does that
36:58
Speaker 6: help the bar? The bartender taking a cut, and I
37:03
Speaker 6: certainly didn't wasn't taking a cut. The bellman were, and
37:08
Speaker 6: the bellman got mad when I stopped it, because I
37:11
Speaker 6: put a stop to it. But there were a lot
37:13
Speaker 6: of high end call girls, and I knew them all
37:22
Speaker 6: easy now and they're all dead now, So I'll say
37:28
Speaker 6: they wore. A lot of them worked at the heart
37:30
Speaker 6: of town. Aunt, do you want me shut up? No,
37:34
Speaker 6: you're fine, all right.
37:35
Speaker 2: Long long as you keep walking that line, you're fine.
37:37
Speaker 6: All right. A lot of them worked at the heart
37:39
Speaker 6: of town, and they made a lot of money waiting
37:44
Speaker 6: on tables. But they'd get off at two o'clock and
37:49
Speaker 6: they could go out and turn the trick and make
37:51
Speaker 6: another five hundred and because there was that kind of
37:54
Speaker 6: money at the heart of town. But when you're a
37:59
Speaker 6: bar tender, you don't pay.
38:07
Speaker 2: And on that note, we'll leave it there, all right.
38:10
Speaker 6: Well that's true. I mean, that's and that was my
38:12
Speaker 6: life at that point when I was twenty three years old,
38:16
Speaker 6: and when I was twenty three years old, that was
38:19
Speaker 6: my greatest, wildest year from the time I turned twenty
38:28
Speaker 6: three and I turned twenty four in August, and right
38:32
Speaker 6: after that I left the Boon. The Boon's the best
38:35
Speaker 6: job I ever had. You said that before as a
38:38
Speaker 6: young person. Harry, the guy that wrote in Broad Daylight,
38:44
Speaker 6: you know, that Skidmore Skidmore guy. He says, how did
38:48
Speaker 6: you get from There's a female character in that book,
38:56
Speaker 6: her named Rita? Did you read about Rita? How did
39:00
Speaker 6: you get from read to to be in Sheriff Kennal County?
39:04
Speaker 6: He said, that's the story right there. You know, why
39:09
Speaker 6: how did you? And so, I mean, when you look
39:14
Speaker 6: back on it and think about it, it is kind
39:18
Speaker 6: of odd.
39:18
Speaker 2: It's very You've led the most unique life of anybody
39:23
Speaker 2: I've ever met. And I mean as far as the
39:25
Speaker 2: different things that you've done in this book, I think
39:27
Speaker 2: really lays all that out. And if you're looking for
39:30
Speaker 2: a book, that is going to be here was my
39:33
Speaker 2: biggest surprise for the book, Danny. If you're looking for
39:36
Speaker 2: a book, that's going to be two hundred or some
39:38
Speaker 2: odd pages of Danny Jones saying I did this. I
39:41
Speaker 2: remember that this is not that kind of book because
39:44
Speaker 2: there are certain reflections from you, but there's also a
39:47
Speaker 2: lot of reflections, as I mentioned earlier, Danny, from other people,
39:52
Speaker 2: Lowry being one, Richard Butler, Yeah, several several people.
39:56
Speaker 6: And if it wasn't for those, well, I just wish
40:00
Speaker 6: George would have lived. You know, my best friend George Jarrett.
40:05
Speaker 6: He was the triple of Richard and Me and George Jerrett.
40:11
Speaker 6: But George died twenty twenty one, and I just wish
40:15
Speaker 6: she'd live to contribute to the book and read the
40:18
Speaker 6: book because we were I mean, it was a wild
40:23
Speaker 6: time back and when I was twenty three years old,
40:27
Speaker 6: that was the wildest of the wild.
40:30
Speaker 2: And one of the things, too, is that we talked
40:33
Speaker 2: about all the things that you've done, from being sheriff
40:35
Speaker 2: to mayor, to a legislator, actor, restaurant tour. There was
40:40
Speaker 2: things I learned in the book that I know you
40:42
Speaker 2: pretty well, Danny, that that I didn't know about you,
40:44
Speaker 2: that you had done all these jobs. I didn't know
40:46
Speaker 2: that you drove a James mansion for Yeah, I was
40:49
Speaker 2: totally unaware of that.
40:51
Speaker 6: He was. I'll tell you a quick story. He when
40:56
Speaker 6: he was running for secretary sake, like seventy six, and
41:04
Speaker 6: he had a a Ford, a condoline van with a
41:08
Speaker 6: caboose back in, you know, you know, can you picture
41:12
Speaker 6: that it had a crank and everything. So we went
41:16
Speaker 6: to Belgrade school and you thought Santa Claus walked in
41:21
Speaker 6: the room and there was real heavy set kid. He
41:24
Speaker 6: walked up and started tugging at him. He says, hey,
41:27
Speaker 6: mister Manson, are you running for secretary of State? And
41:31
Speaker 6: he said why yes, And he says, well, I'll tell
41:36
Speaker 6: my parents, and he says, give them my reards.
41:40
Speaker 2: And if you knew A. Jane's mansion. I didn't know
41:42
Speaker 2: him well obviously, but I can remember him him coming around,
41:47
Speaker 2: you know, to schools when I was when I was
41:48
Speaker 2: in school. That's well, that's the way he sounded well.
41:51
Speaker 6: And then he turned he got on the back end
41:55
Speaker 6: of it. All the kids came outside and he worked
41:58
Speaker 6: at Just like a train car, he said, Danny drive
42:03
Speaker 6: very slowly, so I just verily creaked along. And he
42:07
Speaker 6: was there shaking hands on all those kids and waving at him.
42:10
Speaker 1: And.
42:13
Speaker 6: He was quite the campaigner.
42:15
Speaker 2: So what's the response been to the book for the people?
42:17
Speaker 2: I mean, like you just came out, you know, not
42:19
Speaker 2: long ago, and I don't know that everybody's finished it yet.
42:21
Speaker 2: I finished mine, but I don't know what everybody has.
42:24
Speaker 2: For those of have even read a little bit, what
42:25
Speaker 2: did you hear when you were.
42:26
Speaker 6: I haven't yet. Okay, you're the only one.
42:30
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Well I have a feeling you're going
42:32
Speaker 2: to get a really really I mean, like you said
42:34
Speaker 2: that Taylor books you sold out on Saturday.
42:36
Speaker 6: Right, it's a the only thing you got to worry
42:42
Speaker 6: about if the blue parts pot of you.
42:45
Speaker 14: It's not.
42:45
Speaker 2: I mean it's not at all. I mean this book,
42:47
Speaker 2: in my opinion, I thought it was going to be
42:49
Speaker 2: you love to use the turn blue. I thought it
42:51
Speaker 2: would be bluer than it was. I'll give it a pg.
42:53
Speaker 2: Thirteen If it were.
42:55
Speaker 6: Well and I was going to there was so much
42:58
Speaker 6: more stuff I could read, and I just we would
43:03
Speaker 6: have you know, who ended it. I told you it
43:05
Speaker 6: was you. Are you gonna put the recipes in it?
43:08
Speaker 6: And I said, well, that'd be in the next book.
43:10
Speaker 6: And I went home told Charlie, Charlie, we got to
43:16
Speaker 6: finish this book. Let's and he said fine, So we
43:20
Speaker 6: finished it.
43:21
Speaker 2: We'll get the recipe book out there at some point.
43:23
Speaker 6: But I thought, Otis is the Odyssey of Otis. I
43:27
Speaker 6: thought that was good.
43:28
Speaker 2: It was very good.
43:29
Speaker 6: And he talked, he talked a little bit about the family.
43:33
Speaker 6: He did, Yeah.
43:34
Speaker 2: I mean, if you want to get, you know, the
43:36
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43:41
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43:42
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Speaker 2: I have a question here for you from the text line,
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46:40
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46:42
Speaker 6: Yeah, as far as the West Washington Street, we made
46:50
Speaker 6: enormous amount of arrest down there, and we did a
46:53
Speaker 6: lot of reversals. In other words, we would stage women
46:58
Speaker 6: out there and to rest the guys and that would
47:02
Speaker 6: help out some and it really take the people off.
47:07
Speaker 6: As far as IVY drug users go to what's the
47:12
Speaker 6: name of the place, health. Right, they've got a great
47:16
Speaker 6: need little change Texas.
47:19
Speaker 2: Please tell Danny there's a difference between an audiobook and
47:21
Speaker 2: an e book. An e book you read on a
47:23
Speaker 2: computer iPad. You buy the e book and can make
47:26
Speaker 2: the print large so as old people can read it.
47:28
Speaker 6: Did I say e book?
47:30
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I think you did, because somebody this, Yeah. Well,
47:34
Speaker 2: I don't know that you said the words e book,
47:38
Speaker 2: but this person has texted a couple of times asking
47:40
Speaker 2: if it would be available as an audiobook or an
47:42
Speaker 2: ebook or.
47:44
Speaker 6: I don't think so. I mean, I it's not it's
47:49
Speaker 6: not going to be that big.
47:51
Speaker 2: Well, I mean you sold out at Taylor Books the
47:54
Speaker 2: other day and you had books. Well, but still it's
47:56
Speaker 2: two hundred. You had concerns that nobody wanted to read it,
47:59
Speaker 2: and I said, I think you're wrong, right, I think
48:01
Speaker 2: you're wrong. And the fact that you're you know, get
48:03
Speaker 2: a little publicity. I saw your picture there in the
48:05
Speaker 2: front of the gazette mail last week. Did you do
48:08
Speaker 2: something on thirteen too? Because of man? I thought I
48:10
Speaker 2: heard a man who said something that you going down.
48:11
Speaker 6: Heah, Charleston, West Virginia was so much better in the
48:17
Speaker 6: sixties before we passed the private club liquor law when
48:23
Speaker 6: everything was completely illegal. Charleston was a rock in town.
48:29
Speaker 6: And that was before the Interstate came through. And we
48:33
Speaker 6: would get off work at the Sterling six o'clock in
48:36
Speaker 6: the morning and go down on Court Street and get
48:41
Speaker 6: a ten dollars bottle of liquor. For get a six
48:44
Speaker 6: dollars bottle of liquor for ten dollars, and we'd already
48:47
Speaker 6: drank one bottle. There was just four cooks, and we'd
48:51
Speaker 6: go out and drink the other bottle. Now I'm seventeen
48:55
Speaker 6: years old now, and it was. And in the fifties,
49:04
Speaker 6: Charleston was a flask town. Everybody had a flask. In
49:09
Speaker 6: the forties and fifties, people have a flask and they'd
49:14
Speaker 6: pour liquor in their coffee cup. And I'm talking about
49:20
Speaker 6: places like the Quarterdner. Quarterdner was an upscale place news days.
49:25
Speaker 6: It was considered a place you took a date, you know,
49:28
Speaker 6: when you when you went out. I'm so glad I
49:32
Speaker 6: lived during that era. And be careful here, okay, please
49:44
Speaker 6: do There was a very well known lawyer and if
49:49
Speaker 6: I said his name, you would know it, and he'd
49:53
Speaker 6: come in town and he'd want a girl. And over
49:59
Speaker 6: the heart of town there was a girl. There was
50:02
Speaker 6: one that and so she would go out with him.
50:09
Speaker 6: And she told people that set her up. They said,
50:13
Speaker 6: can you please get him to take a back.
50:16
Speaker 2: I had a feeling I knew where that story was going.
50:21
Speaker 6: But but the girls at the heart of town that
50:26
Speaker 6: I don't know what they do with all their money.
50:28
Speaker 6: I mean, they made so much money just waiting on
50:31
Speaker 6: tables without the other stuff you're saying, and then they
50:34
Speaker 6: either turning tricks or working card games. I made money
50:39
Speaker 6: working card games. You know, you make a few.
50:42
Speaker 2: Hundred What did you do working card games?
50:45
Speaker 6: Get them drinks? If you wanted to make some real money,
50:49
Speaker 6: you could get behind them and blink your eyes. Oh yeah,
50:53
Speaker 6: but I wouldn't do it.
50:55
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51:07
Speaker 2: books now, right, Yeah, And there'll be more coming in yeah,
51:11
Speaker 2: talk about a couple of weeks, okay, and they'll be
51:13
Speaker 2: down at to Taylor Books again. They're somewhere up on
51:15
Speaker 2: the up in the hills too, aren't they.
51:18
Speaker 6: Well, the egg Plant and Capital Market. And I don't
51:22
Speaker 6: know if you all know it. There's a place on
51:24
Speaker 6: the west side called West Virginia Books and they operate
51:28
Speaker 6: like a little Amazon, and they take your books and
51:33
Speaker 6: they put them on their their website and they take
51:38
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51:44
Speaker 6: on the internet. They'll ship them or anything.
51:49
Speaker 2: We got to leave it there, Danny, always a pleasure.
51:51
Speaker 2: Glad everything went well. Taylor Books. Next time we'll have
51:53
Speaker 2: you on. We'll have you on again next week. Thanks all,
51:55
Speaker 2: be cause we didn't eve get talking about Marjorie Taylor Green.
51:58
Speaker 2: I feel very badly about Okay, we'll have to leave
52:00
Speaker 2: it right.
52:01
Speaker 6: Now, I really do. I feel badly for her, and
52:04
Speaker 6: I think she got a rotten deal.
52:05
Speaker 2: All right, we gotta leave it there. Tj give me
52:08
Speaker 2: fifteen seconds what you got on? So, first off, the
52:10
Speaker 2: girls spent all their money on junk bonds. They investigative
52:12
Speaker 2: in junk bonds. Where's what happened?
52:14
Speaker 14: Joey Garcia, Ryan Schmel, Steven Allen, Adams Sheriff, Joey Crawford,
52:17
Speaker 14: Brad mac Mike McKenna of the Washington Times. It is
52:20
Speaker 14: a sold out jamp action. All right, I'll see you
52:22
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52:24
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