Latest / WCHS Network Podcasts / Charleston Christmas Parade – 2025 Live Broadcast with Chris Lawrence, Lisa Otey & Steve Bishop

Transcript

Charleston Christmas Parade – 2025 Live Broadcast with Chris Lawrence, Lisa Otey & Steve Bishop · WCHS Network Podcasts

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the twenty twenty six Charleston Christmas Parade, presented
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: by Charleston Riverfront Watcher Sports.
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: From the heart of the capital city.
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: We are proud to bring you the site, sounds, and
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: holiday spirit of one of Charleston's most terrorist traditions right
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: here on Fibby WCHS the Voice of Charleston. Tonight's broadcast
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: is co hosted by Steve Bishop of B one hundred,
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: Lisa Odie guiding you float by float through an evening
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: of lights, music and community celebration. And now here's your host,
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: West Virginia Broadcast Hall of Famer Chris Lawrence.
• 0:40
  Speaker 3: Good evening and welcome to the twenty twenty five Charleston
• 0:43
  Speaker 3: Christmas Parade. Merry Christmas, everybody. I'm Chris Lawrence. Lisa Odie
• 0:48
  Speaker 3: is beside me, Lisa, Marry Christmas.
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: Merry Christmas to everyone out there.
• 0:51
  Speaker 3: Welcome audience, good to have you in today. We are
• 0:54
  Speaker 3: getting the parade started right now, and Steve Bishop is
• 0:57
  Speaker 3: over on Summer Street.
• 0:58
  Speaker 4: We will go to him in just moments, but we're.
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: Starting off the parade with the Charleston Police Department, and
• 1:04
  Speaker 3: we just happened to have Charleston police Jeeves got Dempsey
• 1:07
  Speaker 3: with us.
• 1:07
  Speaker 4: Scott, how are you, buddy, I'm doing great. How are
• 1:09
  Speaker 4: you guys? I'm doing well.
• 1:10
  Speaker 3: Now tell me about the motorcycles. Lead the thing off.
• 1:13
  Speaker 3: Tell me about that unit right now. They're probably very cold,
• 1:18
  Speaker 3: but you know what, they enjoy it. This is their
• 1:20
  Speaker 3: time to shine.
• 1:21
  Speaker 5: They love to lead the parade as well as the
• 1:25
  Speaker 5: whole police department.
• 1:25
  Speaker 4: We really enjoy this.
• 1:27
  Speaker 5: Not only do we keep people safe, and we enjoy
• 1:29
  Speaker 5: Christmas too and enjoy shaking hands.
• 1:31
  Speaker 4: Is having a good old Christmas time.
• 1:32
  Speaker 3: Now, you guys have been doing an effort where you've
• 1:33
  Speaker 3: been gathering toys to make sure that as many kids
• 1:37
  Speaker 3: as possible, we'll get those that are under privilege.
• 1:40
  Speaker 5: Right, yes, absolutely, I'm so proud of my department for
• 1:42
  Speaker 5: being involved in this toy drive. We get donated toys
• 1:47
  Speaker 5: by the thousands, and we are so proud to be
• 1:50
  Speaker 5: able to do that, and just to put a smile
• 1:53
  Speaker 5: on a kid's face is the best thing that we
• 1:54
  Speaker 5: could ever do.
• 1:56
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, and those are all donated by the community, right absolutely.
• 1:59
  Speaker 5: Yes, our officers go out, they seek the donations. People
• 2:03
  Speaker 5: come to us by the hundreds and just go to
• 2:06
  Speaker 5: the store and just drop.
• 2:07
  Speaker 4: It right off to us. I got you. How many?
• 2:09
  Speaker 4: How many units do you have here?
• 2:10
  Speaker 3: Chief?
• 2:11
  Speaker 4: They just keep on coming. This is all hands on
• 2:14
  Speaker 4: death today.
• 2:15
  Speaker 3: Is everybody working overtime tonight for the parade?
• 2:18
  Speaker 4: Absolutely, that's what it takes.
• 2:20
  Speaker 5: Yes now me unfortunately, no, I'm here on just out
• 2:23
  Speaker 5: of Christmas good will.
• 2:25
  Speaker 4: I got you, my man.
• 2:26
  Speaker 3: It's good to see you, chief, and appreciate you coming
• 2:27
  Speaker 3: by and tell all the guys's merry Christmas.
• 2:29
  Speaker 4: We will mery Christmas?
• 2:30
  Speaker 3: Do you get right? Got Dempsey with the Charleston Police
• 2:32
  Speaker 3: Department and his daughter. It's nice to meet you, by
• 2:35
  Speaker 3: the way, to meet you all right. So the police
• 2:39
  Speaker 3: have gone away, the sirens are starting to die down
• 2:41
  Speaker 3: just a little bit. Astorgatto has rolled up in front
• 2:45
  Speaker 3: of us. And what of their really nice automobiles.
• 2:48
  Speaker 2: Wow, I'd like to be driving that right now, Chris.
• 2:51
  Speaker 3: Okay, So here we come with the Clay Center and
• 2:53
  Speaker 3: how the Grinch stove Christmas on December nineteenth and twentieth.
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: Tickets are on sale now, and there's the grit.
• 3:00
  Speaker 2: Here is the Grinch. He's actually the star of our
• 3:03
  Speaker 2: commercial for the parade.
• 3:04
  Speaker 3: Even though he's the Grinch, he's tossing out candy. I
• 3:06
  Speaker 3: appreciate that his.
• 3:08
  Speaker 2: Heart's already gram Oh wow, look at this.
• 3:14
  Speaker 3: You got a unit from one of the local fire department.
• 3:17
  Speaker 3: So Charleston Fire Department. Okay, I know a lot of
• 3:20
  Speaker 3: the fire departments in the valley are part of this event,
• 3:22
  Speaker 3: but this is the Charleston Fire Department, and I figure
• 3:25
  Speaker 3: their units will be throughout the uh, throughout the parade.
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: I would think. So this is track four sixty one, I.
• 3:31
  Speaker 3: Believe looks like one of their aerial ladder trucks going
• 3:35
  Speaker 3: by here, and then several more emergency vehicles in the
• 3:39
  Speaker 3: in the back there. We mentioned the fact that our
• 3:42
  Speaker 3: broadcast this evening it includes Steve Bishop, who is over
• 3:45
  Speaker 3: on Holly Jolly Brawley. Steve, I know that the parade
• 3:47
  Speaker 3: has not gotten to you yet, but to kind of
• 3:50
  Speaker 3: set the scene over there, it's it's a packed house
• 3:52
  Speaker 3: for folks along the side of the road.
• 3:54
  Speaker 4: Is it like that?
• 3:54
  Speaker 3: Over there?
• 3:55
  Speaker 6: It's anticipation of what's to come, that's.
• 3:58
  Speaker 3: For sure, and I love it.
• 4:00
  Speaker 7: All the folks are bundled up here. I see a
• 4:02
  Speaker 7: lot of parents with with like uh wagons of wagons
• 4:08
  Speaker 7: of children being wheeled by me.
• 4:09
  Speaker 6: Right now, and they're all bundled up. And you know
• 4:12
  Speaker 6: the other thing that I noticed.
• 4:14
  Speaker 7: That there's a lot of dogs here tonight, and I'm well,
• 4:17
  Speaker 7: they're they're with their owners. But but people bring I
• 4:20
  Speaker 7: didn't know that was really a thing. Bring your dog
• 4:22
  Speaker 7: to the parade.
• 4:22
  Speaker 4: Night and decorate him.
• 4:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, what's your Steve?
• 4:26
  Speaker 8: Be sure to warn those those parents that have children
• 4:29
  Speaker 8: and dogs over there that the granch is on the
• 4:31
  Speaker 8: way and he's not too far away, so they may
• 4:34
  Speaker 8: want to prepare for that.
• 4:36
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 4:37
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you what I have.
• 4:38
  Speaker 6: I have a dog right next to me that has
• 4:40
  Speaker 6: clothes on.
• 4:41
  Speaker 3: Seriously, that's smart.
• 4:44
  Speaker 6: The dog has a shirt and pants on.
• 4:46
  Speaker 7: This is a greyhound, right, Yeah, it's a greyhound and
• 4:50
  Speaker 7: it has it seriously, has a pair of pants on
• 4:53
  Speaker 7: to keep warm.
• 4:54
  Speaker 6: And it seems to be all company.
• 4:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and it's waiting on the parade to get going
• 4:58
  Speaker 7: over here on Summer Street where I've.
• 4:59
  Speaker 3: Brought All right, all right, Steve, I don't need to
• 5:02
  Speaker 3: interrupt you, but we've got the George Washington High School
• 5:05
  Speaker 3: Marching Band.
• 5:06
  Speaker 4: Let's listen in a little bit.
• 5:45
  Speaker 3: Marching patriots from South Hills George Washington High School marching
• 5:49
  Speaker 3: band participating in the Charleston Christmas Parade.
• 5:52
  Speaker 4: They're pretty good WESA.
• 5:53
  Speaker 2: Oh they look very festive.
• 5:54
  Speaker 3: I got it.
• 5:55
  Speaker 2: That's a good music.
• 5:56
  Speaker 3: Got a chance to get to see them perform at
• 5:58
  Speaker 3: halftime several times when we didn't use it on the
• 6:00
  Speaker 3: hill this year.
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: They're really good.
• 6:02
  Speaker 3: And they are followed by the members of the Army
• 6:05
  Speaker 3: R O. T C from g W as well. They
• 6:07
  Speaker 3: got their rifles decorated. I've never seen that, now, are
• 6:12
  Speaker 3: you sir?
• 6:12
  Speaker 9: Good?
• 6:14
  Speaker 2: You waved me over, Yes, I did.
• 6:16
  Speaker 3: My name is Harper Gardner.
• 6:17
  Speaker 2: Charles is in the council.
• 6:19
  Speaker 3: It's media pleasure to meet you. Represent work fifteen up
• 6:22
  Speaker 3: in South Hill. You came in there. I've not more
• 6:24
  Speaker 3: than they know what to do, and I'm.
• 6:25
  Speaker 4: Gonna have a sucker man. I appreciate. Yeah, you know everybody.
• 6:34
  Speaker 8: I knew there was an interior motive to have me
• 6:36
  Speaker 8: on this, Steve, what did you need?
• 6:39
  Speaker 7: Oh no, I was just gonna say I'm Harper Gardner
• 6:41
  Speaker 7: and vote for me. But you know you know Harp Well,
• 6:46
  Speaker 7: Harper's dad was the mayor Charleston years ago.
• 6:50
  Speaker 4: I did not know that.
• 6:53
  Speaker 2: As the mayor. Speaking of the mayor, check this out Paz.
• 6:56
  Speaker 3: Yes, the mayor is is dancing away with the dance troup.
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Capitol High School's dance street. That's right, Yeah, there
• 7:05
  Speaker 2: she is.
• 7:09
  Speaker 3: I'm told that she's gonna dance all the way through
• 7:11
  Speaker 3: the parade and then she'll be back over.
• 7:12
  Speaker 2: To Talkzy.
• 7:15
  Speaker 3: She's been practicing or if she just showed up and
• 7:18
  Speaker 3: did it.
• 7:18
  Speaker 2: Oh, I think they've practiced it.
• 7:19
  Speaker 8: I think I read yeah on social media that they've
• 7:22
  Speaker 8: been They've been preparing for this night for several weeks.
• 7:24
  Speaker 2: Now they look good.
• 7:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the Capitol High School dance team.
• 7:29
  Speaker 4: What have we here?
• 7:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, it looks like I.
• 7:33
  Speaker 4: Don't even I don't even really know how to describe this.
• 7:36
  Speaker 2: It looks like Halloween and like a Cruella movie. I
• 7:40
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 7:42
  Speaker 3: They are. They are large, stick like yeah, Ubbet's really
• 7:46
  Speaker 3: and some folks are walking and operating them at the
• 7:50
  Speaker 3: same time.
• 7:50
  Speaker 8: Now, this looks like snuffle up Agus from Sesame Street
• 7:53
  Speaker 8: a little bit right, like the kind of the I
• 7:55
  Speaker 8: don't know, just the eyes and the way it's movie.
• 7:59
  Speaker 3: I don't I wish I had a better description for
• 8:01
  Speaker 3: you than I'm just not sure how to That's.
• 8:05
  Speaker 2: A tough one. That's a tough one. He does have
• 8:07
  Speaker 2: lung legs.
• 8:08
  Speaker 4: Now, that's what I can tell you about.
• 8:09
  Speaker 3: This is Hobby's Little Express from overraconscan yeah, look at that.
• 8:14
  Speaker 2: That's the way to do the parade right there.
• 8:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the smart ones and all the little ones are
• 8:20
  Speaker 3: riding on the train.
• 8:23
  Speaker 2: The whistle.
• 8:27
  Speaker 3: Hey guys, yay.
• 8:29
  Speaker 2: They look like they're enjoying themselves.
• 8:30
  Speaker 3: Hey, Hobby's Express coming through.
• 8:38
  Speaker 2: I wonder if they'll stop. Let us on, Chris, we.
• 8:42
  Speaker 4: Got work to do.
• 8:44
  Speaker 8: What.
• 8:48
  Speaker 3: I wonder how you got how they selected the people
• 8:51
  Speaker 3: that got to ride on the train, because they're having
• 8:53
  Speaker 3: a blast they are. I'm not sure.
• 8:56
  Speaker 2: I haven't heard how they got selected. Bit it looks
• 8:59
  Speaker 2: like the way to do it. We got some candy
• 9:02
  Speaker 2: givers here.
• 9:03
  Speaker 3: Hey guys, here comes the Central van lines float and
• 9:07
  Speaker 3: a couple of years ago they were the winner I
• 9:08
  Speaker 3: believe of this event.
• 9:11
  Speaker 2: Oh they were. Okay, yeah, I can see why.
• 9:13
  Speaker 3: And it looks like they have decorated the inside of
• 9:16
  Speaker 3: one of their movie vans. Wow, and that's pretty impressive.
• 9:20
  Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, I love it.
• 9:22
  Speaker 3: Like they've got the front of it lit up in uh,
• 9:25
  Speaker 3: it's like bright lights and a big star on the
• 9:28
  Speaker 3: on the front and then back in the area where
• 9:30
  Speaker 3: you would put all your furniture and stuff.
• 9:32
  Speaker 4: They've got it all decorated up with a Christmas tree.
• 9:34
  Speaker 4: Looks like somebody's living room, isn't there.
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they got a Christmas tree and they got like
• 9:38
  Speaker 2: blood sticks. Sis, you're amazing, and we just got one thread.
• 9:42
  Speaker 3: And it doesn't work now I think when they hit
• 9:47
  Speaker 3: the ground, so unless it just turned it off.
• 9:50
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm trying to figure it out rightst the count.
• 9:54
  Speaker 3: Steve, feel free to jump in when the parade gets
• 9:57
  Speaker 3: to you over there.
• 9:58
  Speaker 6: Well, we're still waiting, Chris.
• 10:00
  Speaker 7: Were all anticipating coming around the corner there on Washington Street.
• 10:04
  Speaker 2: To watch for Grinch. Yeah, watch for Grinch.
• 10:07
  Speaker 8: This is Kelly Bond's dance studio, their competition troupe.
• 10:11
  Speaker 2: Wow, check this out. I love it. Very festive.
• 10:19
  Speaker 4: Did you participate in that sort of thing in high school?
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: I was actually a cheerleader.
• 10:24
  Speaker 4: Okay, that's kind of the same thing.
• 10:25
  Speaker 8: Yeah, But this dance troupe, they're they're they're putting on
• 10:29
  Speaker 8: some moods they have obviously been practicing.
• 10:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they look I love their hats, don't you.
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: They're all dressed like ten soldiers, ten soldiers. Look at
• 10:39
  Speaker 3: these dudes in the back. Oh, how hid they've not
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: graduated to this point yet. They're just they're just hanging out.
• 10:50
  Speaker 3: They got you got a couple of years theycoln wave
• 10:53
  Speaker 3: the Hello there, yeah, hello, there there comes the Warner
• 10:58
  Speaker 3: Law Office. Yeah, Bobby Warner. Warner who is who is
• 11:02
  Speaker 3: a stalwart with his Beyond the Backyard program, and I
• 11:06
  Speaker 3: like him on excellent Bobby Warner attorney here in town
• 11:10
  Speaker 3: and has been a is a longtime supporter of the outdoors.
• 11:14
  Speaker 3: Has his has this club called Beyond the Backyard to
• 11:17
  Speaker 3: get children involved in hunting and fishing activities and getting outside.
• 11:21
  Speaker 3: That's really a worthwhile project that he does.
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: When you have Usher as your Christmas music, you can
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: never go wrong.
• 11:30
  Speaker 3: Chris, I'm not gonna argue with you after after we're
• 11:37
  Speaker 3: off the broadcast here you can tell me who Usher is.
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: It's a nineties thing.
• 11:55
  Speaker 3: Merry Christmas from the Warner Law Office and Usher.
• 11:59
  Speaker 7: Exactly I was gonna say, is that the law lawyers
• 12:02
  Speaker 7: singing and playing there.
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: Actually I think.
• 12:06
  Speaker 3: He's a d J up in the back and he's just, uh.
• 12:10
  Speaker 4: What do you call it?
• 12:10
  Speaker 3: He's spinning, That's what he's spinning the rector he is.
• 12:18
  Speaker 7: I gonna say, I want to correct an error I
• 12:21
  Speaker 7: made just a moment ago. Harper Gardener is the grandson
• 12:24
  Speaker 7: of the former mayor of Charleston, not his son. So
• 12:28
  Speaker 7: found my mistake.
• 12:30
  Speaker 6: I had no prid better as soon as I said,
• 12:32
  Speaker 6: I went I think I got that wrong.
• 12:34
  Speaker 3: And let me interrupt you because I need to point
• 12:35
  Speaker 3: out the fact that the Christmas Station V.
• 12:38
  Speaker 4: One hundred is.
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: Here logan Logan Scott at the controls with with a
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: snazzy looking jacket on this evening very nice.
• 12:52
  Speaker 4: You may go ahead.
• 12:53
  Speaker 7: One Charleston's Home for Christmas.
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: Oh, Charleston's Home for Christmas.
• 13:02
  Speaker 8: You gotta start the Christmas music what like in November?
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: Like right up? Is it right? Everything'sgiving, It starts and
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: it's full.
• 13:08
  Speaker 3: Time before right before, as you're putting up your tree
• 13:14
  Speaker 3: or you're wrapping presence, you can tune it over to
• 13:17
  Speaker 3: be one hundred and it's wall to wall Christmas music
• 13:20
  Speaker 3: because it's your home for Christmas and Charleston, and you'll
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: hear it in every every store, playing every office you
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: go into. Folks are in the Christmas spirit listening to Steven,
• 13:31
  Speaker 3: Jenny and logan on V one hundred. Well, if it's not,
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: they should be, they should be.
• 13:36
  Speaker 2: They should be. Absolutely. There's the Charleston dog lage. That's
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: one of my faves.
• 13:40
  Speaker 8: They've got like I guess that's some of their pets
• 13:43
  Speaker 8: that are in front that's so cute.
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: And a gigantic dog in the back who's dann Yeah,
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: Let's listen up here.
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: This is the John Adams Middle School Marching Band. John
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: Adams Middle School Marching Band here at the Charleston Christmas Parade.
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: I'm Chris Lawrence along with Lisa Odi and Steve Bishop.
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: John Adams Middle School Marching Band here at the Charleston
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: Christmas Parade. I'm Chris Lawrence along with Lisa Ode and
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: Steve Bishop. We've got to take a break to hear
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: a word from Charleston River Water Sports, sponsors of our
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: broadcast here this evening.
• 14:35
  Speaker 10: We'll be right back, boats, bikes, Broncos this holiday season
• 14:39
  Speaker 10: discover Charleston with Charleston Riverfront Water Sports, Charleston's number one
• 14:43
  Speaker 10: river and road adventure company. Hop into our Bronco Raptor
• 14:46
  Speaker 10: for our Christmas Lights and Holiday tour like no other.
• 14:49
  Speaker 10: Cruse through Holly Jolly Brawley on our premium e bikes,
• 14:52
  Speaker 10: or give the ultimate gift a kid Safari adventure. This
• 14:55
  Speaker 10: wildly popular, family friendly river Safari includes kids binoculars and
• 15:00
  Speaker 10: activity sheets for NonStop fund book your holiday tour or
• 15:03
  Speaker 10: give the gift of adventure today at Charleston Riverfrontwatersports dot com.
• 15:11
  Speaker 7: I like to say that three thousand times program.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: Well, welcome back to the Charleston Christmas Parade, broadcast on
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: five AACHS. I'm Chris Lawrence, Lisa Odie is with me.
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: Steve Bishop tells us the parade has gotten to him.
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: We will go to him in a moment. But Liza,
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna let you describe what we're looking at. Here
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: is West Virginia Breast Health Initiatives, says check him.
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: They might be naughty.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: You probably should have let me say that.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'll let you describe it before.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: Very interesting.
• 15:49
  Speaker 8: We have a grinch hand, only the hand coming out
• 15:53
  Speaker 8: of the truck looking at two pink Christmas faults.
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we'll go with that. We'll go with that.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: I think he's doing an exam.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: That's that's yes, and.
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: That's the idea.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: But it's Christmas bulbs.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: Chris, Well all joking aside, that is something that's extremely
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: important because it's affected people in my family, and I
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: know how.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: Important that is.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know if anyone's family that's not been.
• 16:21
  Speaker 7: Touched well, and it got all your attention. It got
• 16:24
  Speaker 7: your attention, guys, and that's what it's all about.
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: Well, I was, I was trying to be modest.
• 16:29
  Speaker 11: Yeah, but there's so many people affected by that and
• 16:34
  Speaker 11: those that great group is there to help with any
• 16:38
  Speaker 11: if anyone has a need, Yes.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: Let me let me interrupt you, Steve, because Channel thirteen
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: screw just walked by and Marilyn McCullough is here.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: How are you.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: I'm doing well.
• 16:47
  Speaker 12: I hope everybody's having a good time.
• 16:48
  Speaker 13: And you know, Chris Sanna's great, Frost, he's great, the Grinch,
• 16:52
  Speaker 13: he's okay. But I'm out here for the reason that
• 16:55
  Speaker 13: the reason for the season, my Lord savor of Jesus Christ.
• 16:57
  Speaker 13: I got saved two years ago and I'm so incredibly
• 16:59
  Speaker 13: grateful and I just encourage anyone who doesn't know him
• 17:03
  Speaker 13: reach out to me personally. I'd love to introduce you.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: Amen testimony, Merry Christmas and.
• 17:09
  Speaker 13: Look beautiful by the way you and everyone stays warm
• 17:11
  Speaker 13: and it has a very merry Christmas.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Maryly, get to see you.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: That was great.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Marly mccallach from Channel thirteen. I can't add anything to that.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, I don't think so.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: She looked gorgeous, Joe. She was earning the full length
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: for cod All White. She distracted me there. I wasn't
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: able to I was able to make a couple of
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: jokes like I don't believe it. Oh well, she had
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: a message now that flowed.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: I did not see who was on it.
• 17:37
  Speaker 12: Steve.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Steve, you tell us that the that the parade has
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: reached your location, fill.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: Us in on what's happening on your side of town.
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: Yeah, going by, the Chief of Police just stopped by
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: and shaking hands with everybody. The I don't know the
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: motorcycles they were so blinding the lights on them. I
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: don't know whether they looked like they might be brand
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: new motorcycles that we have here in the town with
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: the Charleston Police.
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: But it's just lots of sirens and lots of lights.
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: And honestly, when I was a kid, that was my
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: favorite thing in the parade was to see the police
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: cars and the fire trucks and the ambulance. They just
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: put all the all the lights and sirens on it. Dude,
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: Charleston's big dew ladder truck is coming by you right now.
• 18:20
  Speaker 8: So we have the cabin creek out systems are going by, Steve.
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: So they just went by, gave out some candy.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Very nice as Torgado with the Grinch.
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: Now, how many grinches will we have in the parade tonight.
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: That was seemed to be the theme a few years ago.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: Well, I know that you will have a hand coming
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: here in a moment.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: We talked about that.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: Well, I'll be anticipating that.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: This is pretty cool we got I think it's the
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Polar Express. It is survefro Is put together a Polar
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Express and we've got the conductor out and they're actually
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: making their own snow and it's working.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: There is snow flying everywhere.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: That is awesome.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: That is pretty impressive, guys. Nice work.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: I think they should place in the float contest for sure.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: I'm sure that they will definitely give them a run
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: for their money.
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: They're serve pro.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Those are the guys you call when you've had a problem,
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: when when things have gone south. That's the people to
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: call to clean it up for you. The guys that serves.
• 19:19
  Speaker 14: Oh, we've got the.
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: River City Youth Ballet Ensemble. And this reminds me of
• 19:26
  Speaker 8: like a kind of a Ebenezer Scrooge kind of.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: That's a period of time.
• 19:32
  Speaker 8: Yeah, but the tall hats and the way that the
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: group is dressed.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Pickering associates rolling by and riding the shotgun is the grene. Yeah,
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: and they've got some dancers coming by.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Hey, how are you easy?
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're all dressed in the period dress up. You're right,
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: the Ebenezer Scrooch. Yeah, you can't think of what would
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: be Oh.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure it was a minute ago for sure. Yes,
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: it looks like that.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Man, I would if I did that kind of dancing,
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: I would break both my ankles in the first five minutes.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: They're very good, and they have heels on no less.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Some of them.
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: They look like they're ready for visits from the ghosts
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: of past, present and future. Yeah, okay, here comes well,
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: look at this flow is this share.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Looks like are you kidding? I love it so much.
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: Now we're getting to hear that George Washington High School
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: band passed.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're awesome.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Fire them up there, Steve, we'll just little pass you
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: by there looking good.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: Yes, yes, they are moving on, guys.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: That's the George Washington High School marching man.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: Going to buy Steve's position across the way. And the
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: share you mentioned is Lee Rabol Pride in West Virginia.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she's amazing. By the way, she looks so much
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: like shares.
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: Pretty cool if that's the same share that I know
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: share Share entered that looked alike contest that D one
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: hundred had oh back in the nineties at some point,
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: and uh and won the contest.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: I mean she's a doppelganger for sure. I mean it's amazing.
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: I got it for you to get the same share
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: coming our way out coming our way now.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: Omega Fie Side Fraternity a national fraternal organization founded in
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: nineteen eleven. Wow, it's been around a while.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: He even has them on the back of his jacket.
• 22:13
  Speaker 8: Nineteen eleven. That's pretty pretty impressive longevity there.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: That one's bringing up the rear.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: He needed some hot chocolate. I think it's a little
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: chilly out here.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Intermedio York Judge Dan Greer, what's up, Dan?
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Come over here, get over here and talk to us.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Merry Christmas, sir, Christmas Chris, how you doing. I'm doing well.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: What are some of the things that you guys do
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: around the Greer household on Christmas Morning? Christmas move? I
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: tell you we have a weird uh.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: We have a weird tradition.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: On Christmas Eve we go to a movie of some kind.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: We picked up hot Christmas movie.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: We got for the only people in the theater pretty much.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: I've actually done that and my first Christmas in West Virginia,
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Kyle Wiggs and I went and saw Home alone. We
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: were the only people there along with the guy running
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: the projector yourself. You have take dinner Christmas Eve night,
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: go to church and Christmas morning we have been our
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: presents to eat dinner, watch well, it's good to see
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: you man married Mary Christmas Intermediate Court Judge Dan Greer
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: roaming through the parade handing out candy. Chris.
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: You knows that going to the movie on Christmas Day
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: used to be a big thing. I don't know if
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: it is now, because it you know, people want to
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: get away from from from people other people at home.
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: I thought that was true too, Steven and Nothing. Thanksgiving night, right?
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: Is that another big movie night.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: I think that's a big day.
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: That yeah, because people get tired of being in the
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: house together and I think, okay, what's.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Treat this the truth?
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Hey, there's the Capitol Midwest eatern Little League.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: You're conserenaded.
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: That's Capital Western Little League.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: I can't interrupt or tomp that, but I did want
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: to say that the Midwestern Little League's a proud part
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: of the community since nineteen fifty one, celebrating their seventy
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: fifth anniversary this spring. They've got ages four to sixteen
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: and they've got their Challenger League as well.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: They're a great job.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Judge Mary Claire Akers is now joining us. How are you, Jazz?
• 24:37
  Speaker 12: I'm good.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Well, it's very cold. How are you?
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: I'm doing well. Now are you?
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: Are you chauffeing the soccer team this year?
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: There's my husband is Jbay JB.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: How you doing?
• 24:50
  Speaker 14: That's right?
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he has to drive. Nobody trusts me to drive.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: See what happened to the big soccer ball? Used to
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: have the huge soccer ball in the back of the truck.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: Was there a change?
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: That's a really interesting story.
• 25:00
  Speaker 12: Okay, he died on the interstate.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Throwing as candy.
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: Great free that we are missing one of our players,
• 25:09
  Speaker 8: thro Alow because she's playing in.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: The All American Games.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Okay, she is.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: They're telling me that she is the first player from
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: West Virginia to ever be invited to that game.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: Wow, congratulations to her.
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: She will start WU and next semester she's going up
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: there to join the team.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Always a strong candidate for the state championship. There that
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: George Washington girls soccer always are.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: But they have a blast tonight. Those send Christmas carols.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: You don't even know they're a soccer team.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: Judge Acres, it's good to see you.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: It's good to see you too, all right, Judge Mary
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Claire Akers John is there. Yeah, they used to. That
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: was a big thing. They had this huge soccer ball.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Oh wow, And she said it blew up on the
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: INTERSTATEE when that happened. Serious monument company rolling by. They've
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: got a frosty in the back, and that's where.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: The bubbles are coming from.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: There was a bubble machine. They were everywhere. I thought
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: you bought some champagne over here.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Not yet.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Later.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: Now look at this thing.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Oh look at that. There's another grinch.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: I din't you're right, Steve.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: I think grinches are the are the definite theme.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: The festival queens.
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: Well, it seems like that people like them, right.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: I believe this is the float for Mountain State democracy. Okay,
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: awareness and support in the community year round with activities
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: like toy and food drives.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: And they're the West Virginia Country Roads Festival.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: Oh that's what that is.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty cool.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: So we are broadcasting live on Capitol Street. Steve Bishop
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: is over on Summer Street this evening for the Charleston
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Christmas Parade, brought to you by the Charleston River Front
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: Water Sports. We got to take a break. We'll be
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: back with more from downtown Charleston right after this.
• 26:55
  Speaker 10: Boats, Fikes, Broncos this holiday season, discover Charleston with Charleston
• 27:00
  Speaker 10: Front Water Sports, Charleston's number one river and road adventure company.
• 27:04
  Speaker 10: Hop into our Bronco Raptor for our Christmas lights and
• 27:06
  Speaker 10: holiday tour like no other. Cruise through Holly Jolly Brawley
• 27:09
  Speaker 10: on our premium e bikes, or give the ultimate gift
• 27:12
  Speaker 10: a kid Safari adventure. This wildly popular, family friendly river
• 27:16
  Speaker 10: safari includes kids' binoculars and activity sheets for NonStop fund
• 27:20
  Speaker 10: book your holiday tour or give the gift of adventure
• 27:23
  Speaker 10: Today at Charleston Riverfrontwatersports dot Com.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Every Christmas, Chris Lawrence with you, along with Lisa Odie
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: and Steve Bishops over on Summer Street. It's the Charleston
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Christmas Parade. And here comes Chick fil A. Who doesn't
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: like Chick fil A.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: The cow is here.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Somewhere the cows on the other side.
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: On the other side is this Hercules from the Jaeger Airport.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: I believe that Hercules.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: My goodness, Hercules.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Here comes West Virginia International Yega Airport. And they've got
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Hercules whose job is to run the geese off the
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: runway at the airport. And he does it well, got
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: his uh, got his festive, his festive best on and
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: his goggles.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: He looks so cute.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: He's got his goggles up tonight because he's not working.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: But it's the look.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Look, how long has he done that? Chris?
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Do you I remember what I remember when they got him.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: It was seems like Steve helped me out. It was
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: ten or fifteen years ago. Yeah, he's been up there
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: a while and I can't remember, Chris.
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: I know it has been a while. Very expectively, I
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: don't know.
• 28:38
  Speaker 15: How many they know you apparently.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: No back to Hercules. I remember when they got him.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: But I think there's another one that is being trained
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: or maybe this is the second one or something like that. Yeah, yeah,
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: because he's been around a while.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, I think so valuable service.
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: Well the mayor just came dancing by. I'm sure you've
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: heard the Mariah Carey, yes, she.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: And what this is.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: And this is the Queen of the Charleston Stern Wheel Regatta.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: Well it's a little cooler than when we have the
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: Regardlesston Stern Wheel Regatta. Well it's a little cooler than
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: when we have the regatta in the summer, for sure,
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: just a little. But uh, I'll tell you what. The
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: regatta has certainly been something since it returned and the
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: regatta handing out chocolate. Look at that heart attack from them.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Come back and hang out as long as you like.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Queen's from the regatta.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: How how are you we'll.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Come to the regatta is going on?
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: For sure?
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: Yes, Steve, I'm sorry, go ahead.
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, it's so funny. I'm right by the judges,
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: the parade judges. So everybody wants to make a good impression.
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: Of the judges.
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: So this guy just came by, looked at me and went,
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: I'm guessing, Oh, that guy's just.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: On the radio.
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: He doesn't matter.
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: And he went to the judge's table and unloaded a
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: whole bucket of candy on them, like, I want you
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: to make sure that.
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: You notice who I am and.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: My parade entry here.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Oh it's funny, we're getting bombarded with kings.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's candy everywhere over here. Although I'm not chopoling.
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: Home with you, I'm telling you, I think they've forgotten
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: this over here.
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: Maybe they run out.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: By the time.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: That's the firing rescue that you're hearing.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: That is the Sissonville Fire Department, and that's engine free
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: that is in the parade. And they just hit us
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: with a searchlight. They didn't they I am blinded by
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: the search light. Indeed, they turned it on and lit
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: us up as they rolled by.
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: Max.
• 30:58
  Speaker 7: He might be a good tip for any you come
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: into the parade next year is get on Capitol Street
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: early where there's more candy obviously than there is if
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: you are on summer, but.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: There's a lot even on the in the street.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: There comes to Kanawa County four h clubs as they
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: roll through with a grinch. They've got a grinch and
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: everybody's wearing grinch ware. So and here comes their float.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: Well, I like it. Check that out, chris.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Ken County four H National Youth Development Program. Hey, it's
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: from five to twenty one. You've learned about the four
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: h's head, hard, hands and health and give back to
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: the clubs, the community of.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: The country and the world. The four H Clubs. They've
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: built their own float on.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: Look at that.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: They've got Ralphie in the in the rabbit suit.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Efe.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that's amazing.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: Ralphie in the rabbit suit. I like that.
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: So this is Well Points used to formerly called Unicare,
• 31:55
  Speaker 8: and this is their van coming up Chris, Hey, Candy.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: They are the state's largest Medicaid managing managed care organization
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: with over I think it says one one million members.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: Oh wow, I may I mean it might be one
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: hundred thousand.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: I don't have my maybe a few zeros shorter than that, right.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: I apologize if I misread it.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: It's dark.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: It's dark, and I don't have my glasses.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: I'll do the best.
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm working with your glove stick. That's what I
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: got Hey, the beer truck's here. Very nice.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: That's the party begin.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: The Beverage Market rolling up twas the Pint before Christmas,
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: presented by the Beverage Market. These guys were third place
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: in the twenty twenty three parade.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: I like to be on on a cold night.
• 33:03
  Speaker 8: How the Grinch stole our beer? At one of the advertisements,
• 33:06
  Speaker 8: which is hilarious.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: Al righty, you're oh look at this.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Are these razors coming up?
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: They went like, hey, this is the entry from the
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: Appalachian Outlaw Trails.
• 33:24
  Speaker 16: Oh wow, joining the Appalachian Outlaw Trails and off Road
• 33:31
  Speaker 16: Trail System, an outdoor recreation resort coming in May of
• 33:35
  Speaker 16: twenty twenty six in the Upper Canal Valley.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Nice.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: I can see you driving one of those right through
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: the mud that looks that looks like something you be
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: totally into.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: You just point the direction of the of the trail
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: and I'm on it.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: And then I like their entry because they like it.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: They cut a Christmas tree and they already had it decorated,
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: but they're hauling it home on top of their h
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: They're ATV.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Actually, that's my neck of the woods. Christa. West Virginia's great,
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: so that's why I look like I sent right in.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Oh we got? Is that more?
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: This is the Academy of Arts at January's Academy of
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: Arts at January spreading the joy of dance since nineteen
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: eighty six. Merry Christmas from MSSUS January and their dancers.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: That's pretty cool, and they are now enrolling it, says.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Look, how cute are they penguins?
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: I think you're right. I think they are penguins.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: I thought at first they were dogs, but they're pains.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: No, they're penguins. They look great, nice moods.
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: You know everybody, don't you. I'm pretty sure you know everyone.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Well, I know a few people.
• 34:48
  Speaker 8: I guess with the podcast and some of my teaching history,
• 34:53
  Speaker 8: I know a few.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: You know more than me, Chris Stock, No, I.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: Don't know more than you.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: They know me.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: I don't know them.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: Well, that's that's true.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: All right, Steve bishop Pun, you have going by over
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: on Summer Street right now.
• 35:06
  Speaker 7: Well, I just had the Warner Law Office and I
• 35:09
  Speaker 7: felt like I was at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day.
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: Parade because the DJ was performing and you know, like
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: they do in the big parade. I thought that that
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: was really cool.
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: My radio he was playing.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: He was playing Usher.
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah, my radio station V one hundred just went by here.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: So I hat jacket logan Scott's wearing.
• 35:32
  Speaker 6: The logan is always a flashy dresser.
• 35:34
  Speaker 8: You know.
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: He wants to make sure you noticing my guess that's.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, ree.
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I've got the dog Lodge going by with the
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: big pupp in the back of the truck.
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: The Kelly Boggs Dance studio was by here, and now
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: we've got another band to listen to.
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: All right, let's hear it.
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: And I think they just uh, I think that was the.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: John Adams Middle School market man it was, and they.
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: Just wound it down right there as they passed us
• 36:23
  Speaker 7: by here on somers I'm right by A five Street
• 36:26
  Speaker 7: and the Brawley Walkway and Holly Jolly Brawley with all
• 36:29
  Speaker 7: the beautiful Christmas trees and down check them out. You
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: got to come by here and look at them sometime
• 36:34
  Speaker 7: before the end of the Christmas season because they're just beautiful.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: Unbelieved me, let me interrupt you for a moment because
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: our sponsor is rolling through Charleston River Front Water Sports.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: They've got their vehicle pulling a float with a shark
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: on it. It's not a Canar River shark. I'm guessing
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: it is. And of course Santa is in a boat
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: on top of the truck and the sharks go in
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: for Sanna. That's a cool that's a cool concept. There.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: Go check out the folks at Charleston.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: Riverfront Sports for boats, bikes and broncos and explore the
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: cana discover Charleston.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Got us some more pubs.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: That's the Country Roads pet Resort. Yes, as Lisa goes
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: over and gets some lovings.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Oh absolutely.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: How about how about a.
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: Dog wearing flannel in a car?
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: Hard?
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: I like that it.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Doesn't smell cold. I'll tell you that.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the Country Roads Resort, Country Roads Pet Resort. Join
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: us off the truck and trailer walkers and some furry friends,
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: and then Highland Hospital is rolling by.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Here proves the lives we touch? How true? They look amazing?
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they got another grinch in the back of.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: The in the back of the float.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Is that miss?
• 37:55
  Speaker 8: Oh?
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Thank you guys? Is that this is claws back there?
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: It looks like it she brought Rubik's Cube. No one
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: I'll ever figure that out. You take that. I don't
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: want to mess it up.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: This kid gave me nineteares years ago.
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: I never was smart enough to work that day.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Too much trauma.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: All right, let's see who's coming next. This is gonna
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: be the West Virginia State University President's office, and I
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: believe that's the state the West Virginia State University police
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: rolling by, and here comes the president in US.
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: And a roaster from the twenties.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: Mary Cage's the president of West Virginia State University.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: What a classic car?
• 38:46
  Speaker 12: Right?
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: That is nice?
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: I don't I'd like to know what kind of a
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: car that is. I'm afraid to venture a guess.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's amazing, and that is an excellent shape.
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah at it. Somebody has taken really nice care of
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: that car.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: And they've got the yellow jacket decked out in the
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: decked out in Santaway.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: It looks like he's ready for Christmas.
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: I wonder if he's throwing is he throwing out honey? Pits?
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: A honey?
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: That would have been what I would have insisted on
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: throwing out.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: There would be no other choice, exactly.
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: Okay, funny observation on my point.
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: Over here on Summer Street, there's a child in the parade.
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: Who is picking up candy that has been thrown out
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: by people.
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: Ahead of her. She's a smart Carol, Yes she is.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: She's figured the game out to come to our table.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: They're just like throwing it on our table here.
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: See.
• 39:49
  Speaker 7: I feel like I'm just getting left out over here
• 39:51
  Speaker 7: because the judges get everything and you guys are getting everything,
• 39:55
  Speaker 7: and I'm.
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: Just here.
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: Apologize for that.
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: Steve, Okay, it's okay.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: Drivel Construction is here now coming by. They take care
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: of all of your roofing, cutter and siting needs plus more.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: Give him a call for free estimates three oh four,
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: five five, two fifty one seventy two True Blue Construction.
• 40:21
  Speaker 8: It's like they do a lot of a lot of
• 40:23
  Speaker 8: different odd jobs around the house.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: That is Ruthie.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: Yep, And here comes uh, here comes a ninety six
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: one k ws. Our sister stationed down the hall. There's Brian.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: That's not Brian? Who is that?
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Rock's like, get the name right?
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: Exciting man, I couldn't see you. Rob Reel, he'll be.
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: Up real early.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: It's gonna say, up real early, up real.
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: Early with Rob Reels.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: He rolls by that yeah for sure?
• 41:00
  Speaker 15: A hey, sure, why not thank you so much, White
• 41:14
  Speaker 15: Insurance Urous.
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: Rolling Mi with a gigantic inflatable fruit off in the back.
• 41:22
  Speaker 8: It's a Lisa thing right, Hey, Lisa for you, thank
• 41:31
  Speaker 8: you now you.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: Know everybody, Lisa, I tell you. We're just having a
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: good time here at the Charleston Christmas Parade. Lisa, Odie,
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: Steve Fiship and I Matt Guitar Murphy is producing back
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: on Virginia Street. We got to take a break and
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: hear this word from Charleston to Riverfront and water Sports.
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: We'll be back for more from the parade downtown in
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: a moment.
• 41:53
  Speaker 10: Boats, Fikes, Broncos this holiday season, discover Charleston with Charleston
• 41:58
  Speaker 10: Riverfront Water Sports, Charleston's number one river and road adventure company.
• 42:02
  Speaker 10: Hop into our Bronco Raptor for our Christmas lights and
• 42:05
  Speaker 10: holiday tour like no other. Cruz through Holly Jolly Brawley
• 42:08
  Speaker 10: on our premium e bikes. Or give the ultimate gift
• 42:11
  Speaker 10: a kid Safari adventure. This wildly popular, family friendly river
• 42:15
  Speaker 10: Safari includes kids binoculars and activity sheets for NonStop fund
• 42:19
  Speaker 10: Book your holiday tour or give the gift of adventure
• 42:22
  Speaker 10: today at Charleston Riverfrontwatersports dot com.
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: Ladies, welcome back five any cs and we are live
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: at the Charleston Christmas Parade in downtown Charleston. Lisa, Odie
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: and I are broadcasting from Capitol Street right at the
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: start of the parade, State Bishops over on Summer Street
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: near Holly Jolly Brawley near the judges stand. And he's done.
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: He's being crowded out by the judges over on the
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: far side. Fest of All has a float in and
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: they're playing a little music as they come by. Here.
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: Let's see if we.
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: Can pick some of it up. Fest of All when
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: the city becomes a work of art, and they've taken
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: that back to a ten day Fest of All this year.
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: The Valkyries Ladies Club are.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: They all Grinches? So they they're they're all characters.
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: All female motorcycle.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: But they're just like characters from the ground.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: Combining their love of writing and giving back to the
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: community with this club. Chapters in Charleston, Princeton, Ashland, Kentucky,
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: and they focus on women, children and veterans' needs. The
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: Valkyri's Ladies Motorcycle Club and the Grinches at the.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: Controls Grinches Everywhere to night.
• 43:53
  Speaker 17: Kris seems that way and avoid him.
• 44:01
  Speaker 7: So the GW Soccer girls soccer team is passing by.
• 44:05
  Speaker 7: Right the front of that was the Gnaw County bookmobile,
• 44:08
  Speaker 7: which the bookmobile looks different than it did when I.
• 44:11
  Speaker 6: Was a kid.
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: Instead of books, they have iPads.
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I want.
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: I want to get in there. You know, I didn't
• 44:19
  Speaker 6: even know.
• 44:20
  Speaker 7: Still, I'm being hassled by Brent Sears from Sears Monument.
• 44:28
  Speaker 6: The man just won't leave me alone.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: Get over here, Mayor Ammy Goodwin has joined us here, Steve, okay,
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: take the microphone back front here. It would appear that
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: the mayor is winded.
• 44:43
  Speaker 12: I have no idea what you're talking about. Chris. Well,
• 44:45
  Speaker 12: let me just go ahead and say, she's so young.
• 44:47
  Speaker 18: I thought that when the kids asked me to dance,
• 44:51
  Speaker 18: I thought, well.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: Of course you would.
• 44:53
  Speaker 12: I mean, I played basketball through school, played volleyball.
• 44:56
  Speaker 18: Hap I hadn't played on the men's bathroom. I surely
• 44:58
  Speaker 18: can dance. Let me tell dancing is the most difficult.
• 45:02
  Speaker 8: Thing I've ever done in my entire lesson, and you
• 45:04
  Speaker 8: have to do it down the street in freezing cold weather.
• 45:07
  Speaker 18: I mean to tell you, but here's the thing. This
• 45:10
  Speaker 18: is what I absolutely love about our city. This is
• 45:12
  Speaker 18: what I love about the kids in our city. They
• 45:14
  Speaker 18: were so spirited. They everything that you saw on us,
• 45:18
  Speaker 18: including the crown. I'm still hearing it's homemade. They made
• 45:22
  Speaker 18: it all. They made our costume, they made our head dresses.
• 45:25
  Speaker 18: They loved it. I loved it, and I don't tell kids.
• 45:29
  Speaker 8: No.
• 45:29
  Speaker 12: This is not to say, if the kid is listening,
• 45:31
  Speaker 12: I will do it next year.
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: A couple of questions, how long did it take you
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: to get dolled up for this thing?
• 45:39
  Speaker 18: I have never worn fake eyelashes a day in my life,
• 45:43
  Speaker 18: but I didn't much.
• 45:45
  Speaker 12: I don't know what you're talking aboubout.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: Maybe the sparkles.
• 45:47
  Speaker 8: You may.
• 45:50
  Speaker 12: It's amazing. It's fun. I mean, it was fun and
• 45:53
  Speaker 12: it is what they wanted.
• 45:54
  Speaker 18: And I said, whatever you want me to do is
• 45:56
  Speaker 18: exactly what I will do now.
• 45:58
  Speaker 12: Lifting me up and putting me on your shoulder. I
• 46:01
  Speaker 12: didn't know that I was gonna.
• 46:03
  Speaker 18: Have to do that, but I did it.
• 46:06
  Speaker 12: More than a dozen times.
• 46:07
  Speaker 18: Really, the lift the dance we did probably twenty times.
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: Play Wow, Well, at least when you were doing that,
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: you didn't have to.
• 46:15
  Speaker 18: Walk well, Chris looked for the whole song accentuate the positive.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: That's where we're now. You're ready for dancing with the stars?
• 46:28
  Speaker 18: It absolutely well, I'm gonna have to rest hydrate for
• 46:33
  Speaker 18: but the floats have been amazing. The crowds have been amazing. Listen,
• 46:37
  Speaker 18: mother Nature, she gave us a cold a cold kiss
• 46:42
  Speaker 18: this afternoon. But if you look around, every single place from.
• 46:47
  Speaker 12: Capital to Washington to Summers all the way back to
• 46:51
  Speaker 12: the boulevard is packed.
• 46:53
  Speaker 18: And what I love to see packed with children having
• 46:55
  Speaker 18: a really good time.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been great.
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you what mayor ever since you decided that
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: this should be a nighttime event in the middle of
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: the week, I still think that was one of the
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: best decisions that's been made. Well, it's so many more
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: people come out for this.
• 47:10
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 47:11
  Speaker 18: Well, when it was on Saturday at ten thirty in
• 47:14
  Speaker 18: the morning, what the downtown business has said to me
• 47:16
  Speaker 18: was maybe we could do it at a different time.
• 47:19
  Speaker 18: And then it was like, well, wait a minute, what
• 47:21
  Speaker 18: I'm a daughter of a.
• 47:22
  Speaker 12: Small business owner. When do you want business.
• 47:24
  Speaker 18: Well in the week when you're open, right, you know
• 47:26
  Speaker 18: at that, especially for restaurants, right, like, give me.
• 47:30
  Speaker 12: My dinner crowd.
• 47:30
  Speaker 18: And so we met with the downtown businesses and they
• 47:34
  Speaker 18: said we would love to do it, And to this day,
• 47:37
  Speaker 18: since we started the evening parade, they say it is
• 47:40
  Speaker 18: their number one or number two busiest night of the
• 47:44
  Speaker 18: whole year.
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: I don't doubt that that is music.
• 47:46
  Speaker 12: That is music to my ear.
• 47:47
  Speaker 18: So go try to get a soda pop downtown.
• 47:50
  Speaker 12: You can get one right now. Yeah, but that's what
• 47:52
  Speaker 12: makes it so fun.
• 47:54
  Speaker 18: Everybody brings their chairs and their blankets. There's so many
• 47:57
  Speaker 18: wonderful vendors who were here and so we absolutely just.
• 48:00
  Speaker 12: We love it.
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: And there's candy everywhere. But I have I've seen this.
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: I've witnessed this. As we're tearing down the set here
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: after the parade's over, your street, guys are out here,
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: this thing is around.
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: This thing's cleaned up within thirty minutes.
• 48:12
  Speaker 18: So let me tell you something the second they step off,
• 48:14
  Speaker 18: because my first year doing this at night, I literally
• 48:17
  Speaker 18: stayed till the last person went home because I was
• 48:20
  Speaker 18: so worried about all what's going to happen.
• 48:22
  Speaker 12: We got business is to open in the morning.
• 48:24
  Speaker 18: We want people to get to work, and the second
• 48:27
  Speaker 18: the last float goes, our guys are locked and ready
• 48:31
  Speaker 18: to go.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, right behind Santa Claus.
• 48:32
  Speaker 12: Literally right behind Santa Yeah, they are.
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: And just sweeping it up as they go.
• 48:36
  Speaker 18: Yeah, what's that song? You can't you don't have to
• 48:38
  Speaker 18: go home, but you can't stay yet.
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: That's what that That's what that last.
• 48:42
  Speaker 12: Truck says when they're cleaning.
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: And you're so right.
• 48:44
  Speaker 8: We got so lucky with the weather because I know
• 48:47
  Speaker 8: later on this evening, after midnight, it's not going to
• 48:50
  Speaker 8: be as pretty as it is right now.
• 48:51
  Speaker 12: No, it is not Mother Nature.
• 48:53
  Speaker 18: She's gone to glower us with some snowflakes later on,
• 48:56
  Speaker 18: but we'll take it. I cannot thank you guys enough. Lisa, Chris,
• 49:00
  Speaker 18: you guys do an absolutely amazing job. I love that
• 49:03
  Speaker 18: you do this. It is such a wonderful community thing
• 49:06
  Speaker 18: that you do. By the way, Hello to my mom
• 49:08
  Speaker 18: and my dad and my sister who are listening because
• 49:11
  Speaker 18: I know you are because they never stopped listening to you.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's awesome.
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: I appreciate That's to you, my mother, Chris, Mom. Those
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: are the.
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: Mayor. It's so goodness seeing you.
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: Thanks for swinging by, and Mayor Amy Goodman of the
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: City of Charleston joining us here on Capitol Street.
• 49:35
  Speaker 19: Uh.
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: The the I didn't catch who threw it?
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: What was it?
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: Well, I can't see that car up there. What it
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: was on? I think it was carepoint. He threw me
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: a bag of coal. What's that say?
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: I got a bag of coal? A message?
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: I think that might be a sign.
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: I think it is a sign.
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: Indeed, I won't make no comment.
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: How's that?
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: Who coming our way?
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: Next? Is the folks from West Virginia, grown and promoting
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: products of agriculture here in the Mountain State. This is.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Rooted in the Mountain States.
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: I tell you what.
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: While we wait for things to catch up here, let's
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: go ahead and take another break. Chris Lawrence, Lisa Odie
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: and Steve Bischoff with you this evening for the Charleston
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: Christmas Parade. We back in a moment after this.
• 50:33
  Speaker 10: Boats, Bikes, Broncos. This holiday season, discover Charleston with Charleston
• 50:38
  Speaker 10: Riverfront Water Sports, Charleston's number one river and road adventure company.
• 50:42
  Speaker 10: Hop into our Bronco Raptor for our Christmas lights and
• 50:45
  Speaker 10: holiday tour like no other. Cruise through Holly Jolly Brawley
• 50:48
  Speaker 10: on our premium e bikes, or give the ultimate gift
• 50:51
  Speaker 10: a kid safari adventure. This wildly popular, family friendly river
• 50:55
  Speaker 10: Safari includes kids binoculars and activity sheets for NonStop fund
• 50:59
  Speaker 10: book your hal at a tour or give the gift
• 51:01
  Speaker 10: of adventure today at Charleston Riverfrontwatersports dot com.
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: Welcome back to coverage of the Charleston Christmas for ad
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: Chris Lawrence with you, Alisa, Odie and Steve Bishop. And
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: they're taking my candy. What's up with that?
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: I told them they could.
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: Oh, you gave away my hands.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: I appreciate anything anything on the table. Is that for grabs?
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: That's just how I feel. You better put that in
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: your pocket.
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: Give him.
• 51:36
  Speaker 8: Well, they don't want your call, Chris. That's all yours tonight, buddy.
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: Oh oh, look at that.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: That's still really fun. Extreme gaming.
• 51:48
  Speaker 8: So they do school, church events, fundraisers, family reunions.
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, give them, give them a call at three o
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: four seven one four. They'll uh, they'll bring the fun
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: to you.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: Out looks fun.
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: Okay, So we got Yeah, I'm trying to catch up
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: and see what was.
• 52:12
  Speaker 8: A developmental developmental advantage.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: They do ABA therapy in school services.
• 52:21
  Speaker 8: Wow, that's an awesome service that they provide.
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: Hey, Steve, who do you have over your way right now?
• 52:30
  Speaker 7: Well, I got the January School of Dance. That's going
• 52:33
  Speaker 7: by me right now. They're not making a lot of noise.
• 52:36
  Speaker 7: They're just dancing.
• 52:37
  Speaker 6: Oh, somebody's saying hi, Steve. Well that was nice.
• 52:40
  Speaker 7: And right in front of them was West Virginia's newest
• 52:45
  Speaker 7: outdoor RV resort.
• 52:48
  Speaker 6: I think that's what it was.
• 52:49
  Speaker 7: I didn't get the name though. I couldn't see the banner.
• 52:51
  Speaker 7: But they sended like their vehicles cended like a bee's nest.
• 52:55
  Speaker 7: You probably remember them going by.
• 52:59
  Speaker 4: I do not remember that.
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: No, I don't.
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: I don't remember them.
• 53:03
  Speaker 7: Perhaps they they've invaded the parade somewhere in the middle
• 53:07
  Speaker 7: of the route.
• 53:08
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 53:09
  Speaker 7: Nightro Fire Departments brand new ladder truck is going by.
• 53:14
  Speaker 6: It looks really good.
• 53:15
  Speaker 7: It's got the city of Nitro colors red and black.
• 53:20
  Speaker 6: And up next, oh.
• 53:22
  Speaker 7: I've got the shark trying to eat Santa Claus.
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: Oh, there you go.
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: So that one was pretty cool, wasn't it.
• 53:29
  Speaker 6: This is just not what you want at Christmas time.
• 53:32
  Speaker 4: Well, those are the guys that are sponsoring our broadcast.
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: That's wherever found waters Hoars.
• 53:36
  Speaker 7: Oh it is I see now on the vehicle. That's
• 53:39
  Speaker 7: who that is.
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: Alliance.
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: So this is this is the FC Alliance and they've
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: been around since twenty fourteen to bring the high level
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: of soccer to Charleston, West Virginia. And I'm I'm assuming
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: that all these guys behind them are soccer players. Thank you, buddy,
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: I appreciate that he threw me some candy. Don't give
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: it away.
• 54:05
  Speaker 6: The one thing consistent that I noticed is lots of.
• 54:08
  Speaker 7: Smiles over here, and people are enjoying the parade. I mean,
• 54:12
  Speaker 7: who doesn't like a parade? Who really doesn't like a parade?
• 54:15
  Speaker 7: The h I got some guys playing the bongos as
• 54:19
  Speaker 7: they go by me.
• 54:22
  Speaker 6: That'll keep your hands warm. Hey, folks, for you listening.
• 54:25
  Speaker 7: That's the only thing on me that's cold, and that's
• 54:28
  Speaker 7: actually better than it was. But it's kind of chilly
• 54:32
  Speaker 7: out here tonight, but I think we've had colder parades.
• 54:34
  Speaker 6: I really knew what Chris said. He was he was
• 54:36
  Speaker 6: so warm last year, he was slating.
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: I don't remember.
• 54:39
  Speaker 4: I didn't know where a coat last year.
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: I'll take your word for it.
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: It was not cold last year, but now it is
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: chili this year.
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: For sure.
• 54:46
  Speaker 6: You just never know what you're gonna get. That's for sure.
• 54:49
  Speaker 6: But it was lucky with the snow holding off.
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the one year they put it off because it
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: was gonna be really bad and uh and that's that's
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: what they did. So they got postponed one year, never
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: been canceled. So hi there, how are you in the
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: parade having a good time? Another soccer group going by,
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: the West Virginia Football Club and that's f ut as
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: the soccer soccer guys continue going by, and.
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: Hey, I'm always.
• 55:26
  Speaker 6: Over the go ahead.
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I was gonna.
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: Say, I'm always I'm amazed at how much I'm always
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: amazed at how popular soccer has become from what it was.
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: When I was a kid. I mean I was growing
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: up and nobody played it.
• 55:40
  Speaker 7: It was when we were a kid's soccer was the
• 55:42
  Speaker 7: sport nobody was gonna dare play.
• 55:45
  Speaker 6: But no, it was number one, nobody knew how and.
• 55:47
  Speaker 7: Number two they didn't understand it and they and it
• 55:50
  Speaker 7: was like, that's just not a game we do.
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: So I remember watching soccer on the case.
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: Now, I remember.
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: Watching soccer on PBS on Saturday afternoon and not having
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: a clue what I was watching. They were there was
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: all those World Cup leagues Back in the day. I
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: had no idea what I was watching.
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: But boys, I still.
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: Don't understand it. A whole loss come.
• 56:11
  Speaker 4: A long way, though it's extremely popular.
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the good folks at offered pest control rolling by
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: right now the Grinch.
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: I don't worry about the Grinch.
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: They say he's not his best behavior tonight and ready
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: to spread some holiday cheer.
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: Grinches in the truck, so don't worry about it.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you so much.
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: You just get lots of Yeah, I believe that was
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: I believe that was Hold Steel Company, right. Yeah, And
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: here here comes Poka Valley Bank and they are playing
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: the song of my youth. The folks at Poka Valley
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: Bank were relationships matter.
• 57:02
  Speaker 7: Hey, I do feel like I'm in the Macy's parade
• 57:05
  Speaker 7: now or at the Macy's parade, because I've got a
• 57:07
  Speaker 7: big inflatable Rudolph coming by me.
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 57:12
  Speaker 7: I can't see who's who it's with, but oh, it's
• 57:15
  Speaker 7: Wide Insurance. Now, I see that Rudolph is kind of
• 57:18
  Speaker 7: towering over everything as it comes by. That's Rudolph got
• 57:24
  Speaker 7: some fans too. Oh, in Rudolph's got canned Christmas.
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: Family Care Health centers, miles of smiles. They've got their
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: RV dental unit here at least so that there is
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: an r V. Yeah, don't you go falling in love
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: with it, because we're taking it with us when we
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: leave next month. I feel like they missed. I feel
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: like they missed a little bit of an opportunity to
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: have really had some fun there.
• 57:48
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: Right, what a valuable service that that they provide the
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: families mean.
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: The West Virginia Poison Control Center as rolling are w
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: you talking about a valuable service if you've ever had
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: an issue there, that's that's a good number to have
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: on your phone.
• 58:05
  Speaker 6: Oh, thank you finally gave me candy.
• 58:11
  Speaker 4: Congratulations, Steve.
• 58:13
  Speaker 6: I don't know what you say.
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: Thanks fellas, we just got some more candy.
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: Steve, Steve, we're beating you. I'm afraid you.
• 58:21
  Speaker 6: Definitely got the candy.
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and here comes the vintage fire truck from the
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: cleanin and Volunteer Fire Department of it. Oh great, man,
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: can you imagine trying to ride on the back of
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: that thing. Now, somebody has restored that and done a
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: really nice job, got it all decorated up.
• 58:44
  Speaker 4: That thing's beautiful.
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: It's amazing. Some of these vintage vehicles. How hot Rod's.
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: Coming over here too. Yeah, the Clean Thennon Fire Department.
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: Now their modern trug is right behind the vintage truck
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: engine number one out of I believe Stephen at the Mockery's.
• 59:06
  Speaker 7: That's a that's a farley.
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: Is that the Boys Ladies Motorcycle Club? Yeah, yes, I
• 59:17
  Speaker 4: thought so.
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: Ladies Motorcycle Club, Yeah, yes, I thought so. And there's
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: the Canon Charleston over on this side, Steve. We've got
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: the can and Charleston Health Departments.
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: RB well decorateated.
• 59:40
  Speaker 8: I'm telling you a see.
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: We'll let Steve finish with the motorcycle group over there.
• 59:52
  Speaker 7: Well you want the motorcycle ladies in the motorcycles have
• 59:56
  Speaker 7: just moved to my right, so you're.
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: You're good to go again.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 7: I love it so much, and now I'm I'm hailing
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 7: all the exhaustions.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 6: Thank you, ladies.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah we are too.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, getting the big old whiff of.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 20: That and a clear your sognus to see back over
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 20: here on Capital Back over here on Capitol Street, the
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 20: cinar Grove Volunteer Fire Department Engine sixty three rolling up nice.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: And here's the Celtic College.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 8: That's a great festival that we have here in Charleston,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 8: and usually it's what the first of Marge I believe.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 3: In fact, it's their tenth anniversary this year, okay, and
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: it will be uh yes, each March in Charleston. They
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: bring the community together sharing Celtic heritage through music, dance,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: and cultural events.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: It's a great event if you've never been to it.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: And they've got so many different things going on in
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: the in the city.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: It's it's an awesome Let's say hello to the DuPont
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: Middle School cheerleaders rolling by.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 7: I'm laughing because the mayor has now come over and
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 7: joined me.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 6: And the mayor just came over and just it's ready to.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: So much energy. How did you get over there so quick?
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 7: Well, that's what I was laughing about. Here had that microphone.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 7: The mayor just kind of came over and started drooping
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 7: like a flower.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 6: That needed water.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 12: I have no idea what you're talking about. Where's my chair,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 12: where's my where's my foot?
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 8: Back?
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 6: Well here, diva, yeah, right, have a have a.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: Well, you know what.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 18: As as we were rounding this last corner with I
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 18: was dancing with the Capitol High School Dance Troupe, I
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 18: said to them, Okay, guys, we're almost there. And I
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 18: was saying it basically to myself, because we did the
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 18: routine like twenty five times.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 6: You did the well, I was a very pressed.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 18: It was so fun and I was so thrilled that
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 18: the Capitol High School kiddos asked me to dance with them,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 18: and so I just it was just so great. It
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 18: was so wonderful, a wonderful opportunity. And they're just such
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 18: great kids.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 7: They are, And you know what you've done well by
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 7: I know you were talking to Chris and Lisa about
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 7: moving the parade to a nighttime parade.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 6: This is great. It really is. Smiles on all the faces.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 7: Little doggies out here too tonight, I thought children riding
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 7: in wagons.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 6: No, I'm just loving it.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 18: Well, this is what Charleston is all about. You're looking
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 18: at what Charleston is all about. We're a wonderful connected
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 18: community who cares about one another.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 12: And that's what you see tonight.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 18: Our businesses are packed, our families are out here together,
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 18: lots of laughing, lots of laughing, and you know, mother nature.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 18: I thought, oh boy, it's chilly, but you know what,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 18: after you're out here for a little bit a warm
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 18: cup of cocoa.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 7: It's fine, Hey, Chris, I don't mean to steal a
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 7: show from you.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 6: But the mayor's all right.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 7: I thought I would chat with her if she's sticking around,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 7: I'll ask her about the Christmas trees. But you guys
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 7: might want to tell us what's going on over there
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 7: right now.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: Well, we just had the Jefferson Fire Department rolled by
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: and I had to turn it down because that siren
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: was drowning out the mayor. So we killed the microphone
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: for a moment to give the mayor the air. So,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: and Lisa has Lisa has gone through some kind of
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: a transformation here. Her tensil got tied up in her headphones,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 3: and you were having a situation there.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 4: It looked like I had.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 8: A little Well what happened, was, Chris, when the cheerleaders
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 8: went by them through candy, they spilled in my hot
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 8: cocoa on my notes, so I had hot cocoa fly everywhere.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 8: Then I was trying to get that cleaned up. Papers
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 8: went in the wind and then my tensil.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: Got in a tangle. It was just a it was
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: just a little tensil in a tangle incident. I apologize.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 3: I like that. That almost sounds like that almost sounds
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: like a great name for a band, Tangled Tensil. It
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 3: was all right, is the mayor still with you, Steve
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: Or as she moved.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 6: On, Well she dumped me. She's gone. Okay now, I said, okay,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 6: I was gonna.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 7: I think she probably needs to go to relax and
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 7: sit down because she looks, you know something, She is
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 7: so energetic.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 6: But I think she might just be a little tired
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 6: right now. That out. I don't think she's ready to
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 6: go home yet.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 7: I wonder what was I kept feeling something tickling my
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 7: head and it was her. That thing she had on,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 7: that head dress she had on with the Capital Dance team.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 6: She was bending over and it was hitting the top
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 6: of my head. I thought, what is that? And it
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 6: was just it was her.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 7: I wanted her to stick around and talk about the
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 7: Christmas trees over here, but because I know that that's
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 7: something she's proud of too.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 4: That the.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 7: Holly Jolly Brawley, Yes she did, are something you guys
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 7: listening ought to come see if you've not been down here,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 7: because I'm amazed by the talented people that we have
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 7: in town. Here that put all this together, and the
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 7: people that decorated the trees, they're amazing, leaving pretty just great.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: So, Steve, we just came across Jared Page.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 8: He's running for office here in Charleston, and you want
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 8: tell us a little bit about that, Jared, Yes.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 17: Thank you, running for the Kanaw County Commission here in
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 17: Kanall County. Currently serve as a vice mayor of the
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 17: City Saint Aubans and on City Council. Before that, I
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 17: was municipal judge for three and a half years and
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 17: I always love city Charleston. Left come to visit and
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 17: to work here, so hip here every day. So it's
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 17: great to be here celebrating Christmas spirit going down Capitol
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 17: Street and look forward to hopefully serving the citizens Kanall
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 17: County on the County Commission.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: Wow, thank you, Jared.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas. Next up the stepping
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: Stones Family and Youth Services Santa's Silberus for foster kids
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 3: spending Christmas hope, one child at a time, and they've
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 3: got themselves. There was a picnic table and a picnic
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 3: shelter on their float like that, Do.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: They look like they're ready for Christmas morning.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: They do, indeed, and their message, of course is being
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: helping home and be a foster parents, and certainly we
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 3: need as many of those as we can get in
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: West Virginia.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: Absolutely do.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: Hey guys, all right, here comes one of my favorite
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: places to go in Charleston, the Capital Market, rolling up
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: with a vintage flatbed with a bunch of Christmas trees
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: on the back. Do they come decorated like that? If
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: you buy a tree at the market, do you get
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: that they come decorated?
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: I think they do. That's the case.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 8: I want two of them. That's the hardest part of Christmas.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 8: Get those Christmas trees decorated.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: French Creek Farms.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 3: I said, I said it was a vintage truck. I
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 3: shouldn't have said that. It's not a vintage truck.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: It looked like it from the front. That a little
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: bit where you thought that?
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 8: All right?
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 3: I tell you what. Chris Lawrence, Lisa Odie and Steve
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 3: Bishop with you here on five ADWCCHS. We got to
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: take another break. We'll be back with more from downtown
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 3: Charleston after the Alma.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 10: And with Charleston Riverfront Water Sports, Charleston's number one river
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 10: and Road Adventure Company. Hop into our Bronco Raptor for
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 10: our Christmas lights and holiday tour like no other. Cruise
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 10: to Holly Jolly Brawley on our premium e bikes. Or
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 10: give the ultimate gift a kid Safari Adventure. This wildly popular,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 10: family friendly river Safari includes kids binoculars and activity sheets
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 10: for NonStop fund Book your holiday tour or give the
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 10: gift of adventure today at Charleston Riverfrontwatersports dot com.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: Hey, we welcome you back. Chris Lawrence with you, Lisa Odie.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: We're on Capitol Street. Steve Bishop's over on Holly Jolly
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: Brawley on Summers Street, and here comes the Charleston Light
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: Opera Guild. The official musical theater of West Virginia, was
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: Anna and the cast of Frozen in tonight's parade, and
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: they will be the first theater group in West Virginia
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: to present the full length musical adaptation at the Clay
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: Center in February of Frozen.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 4: Steve, you got somebody over there.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 7: Well, I'm just talking to folks, and I don't know
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 7: if I was this something you were passing out in
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 7: the parade. Oh yeah, okay, all right, I assure you
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 7: surely not. It's I was gifted with a tiny bottle
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 7: of fireball. Maybe because I was talking about it being
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 7: chilly out here.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 4: Well that'll that'll change things.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: That'll definitely warm you up.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 6: All right, I do, I do want to bring something
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 6: up here.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 7: So the Warner Law Offices was this something tell tell.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 6: Everybody what you did.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 3: So we came up with a with an idea.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 21: We we give out about three tons of candy every year,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 21: we feel like, and we thought, what would be better
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 21: than having golden tickets we have we hand out for
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 21: for you know, just a little Christmas cheer, and inside
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 21: that golden ticket basically it's a golden envelope. Yeah, there's
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 21: some cash in there. It's it's it's a it's a
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 21: great time here to get a little extra cash. And
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 21: uh we we look around and and Bobby uh did
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 21: a great job yesterday on Facebook and said, hey, if
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 21: you're excited about our float, and we had a DJ
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 21: and we had a lot of energy.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: We heard that.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 21: There's a kid out there that that's really excited and
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 21: it's dressed up and it's just having fun.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: Well they might get a golden ticket.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 21: So we gave out thirty of them tonight, and uh
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 21: and we saw some really really happy faces. And we
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 21: hope that inside of those envelopes with some Christmas cash,
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 21: and we hope it helps those families and and makes
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 21: Christmas a little better.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 4: I wish you had left one on the table, Chris.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 7: Well, they're all wishing you'd come back by over there
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 7: on the broadcast location on Capitol Street.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 4: You had so much fun. We would love to go
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 4: through again.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 6: Well, we would love you to do that too. That's
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 6: a great idea, though, thank you for sharing that. By
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 6: the way, that's not where the fireball came from. That
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 6: was somewhere else.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 7: Okay, that's at not the same.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 3: That's a great story and a great idea of a
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 3: Bobby Warner Charleston attorney.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, board dancers, rolling mind.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 3: It looks like we've got eyewitness hue Channel eight is
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 3: next up in the parade. Oh yeah, and also their
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: road tripping vehicle because they roll by handing out candy.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 4: I don't drink fireball.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 3: Why did they give me that?
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 4: I'm sure somebody will take it off your hands.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 6: Well, I'm I.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 7: Don't think that was I don't think that was a parade.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 6: Goodie.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 7: I think that was a that was like, I don't
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 7: think that. I don't think they were throwing that out
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 7: to the children.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 3: We started to broadcast with the Chief of police, and
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 3: now we're down. Somebody's giving Steve fireball. That's that's how
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: this broadcast has eroded through the night. Well you know
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 3: how you doing, man, he's a road tripping he is
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 3: ribit his news and Channel eight and Fox eleven the
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 3: live truck rolling by various reporters that you see on
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 3: Channel eight handing out candy throughout the.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 4: Throughout the parade route here.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 7: Not to not to dwell on alcohol, but I remember,
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 7: well I moved here, you know, forty five years ago,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 7: and there's a lot of things I didn't know about life.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 7: And one time, let me interrupt you there, Steve, because uh,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 7: GiMA and the and one of seventy three the beat
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 7: are rolling by over here and g Money is waving
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 7: it everybody, and behind him is Brian in the Mountain
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 7: truck and they're shockley appreciated, dude, More candy.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 3: That's what I needed, Just work candy. And here comes
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 3: your buddy, Hollis Lewis holler at him, telling you tomorrow
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 3: right over here, where's Hollis?
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: We need Hollis? Is he in the truck?
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 3: Is that him there?
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: Hollis, get over here.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 8: This is my podcast, buddy, I mean Christmas Song showt'
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 8: that's Hollis Lewis. He's actually on the podcast Let's Talk
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 8: with Carl Lee, Carlee and Hollis that I do on
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 8: w CCHS and Buck.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: That show comes on right, I think correct.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 3: As soon as we're done with the parade broadcast, you'll
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 3: have the last edition of Uh Let's Talk with Carl
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 3: Lee and Hollis and Lisa they'll be on there.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 8: Yeah, we've got coach Mark Snyder on there tonight. It's
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 8: going to be a great, great.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 3: Show former coach at Marshall.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 7: Yes, hey, guys, you were just talking about one O
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 7: seven three the Beat radio station, and uh, the guy
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 7: who's like known for the on the Beat more than
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 7: anyone probably is Woody woods and he's here.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 6: What he's one of the parade judges tonight. Who do
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 6: you think looks good in the judging? Their woods Man.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 9: West Virginia Pride is looking good.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 8: Uh.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 9: They just I think they just called Pulp.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 19: The Valley now, yes, they just came through and uh,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 19: it's another one that the shark.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh David former Charleston police lieutenant.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 9: Yes, sir, Lieutenant Payne, and he came through with the baby.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 9: They in the top five. I can't give you the
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 9: other three because they don't think it's rich. But awesome, awesome,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 9: awesome event.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 6: A lot of work goes into this.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 19: Yes, Steve been out here since five o'clock. Gang, This
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 19: is my brother. He wake up at four am and
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 19: is now, what time is it?
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 6: It's I don't know what time it is. I don't get.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 19: You know, when you get money and you don't wake
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 19: up that you're gonna wake up that early anymore.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 9: And Chris not waking up that early.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 8: Man.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 3: That news ain't gonna report itself, buddy. He speaking of news.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 3: Five eighty w CCHS is news or Cruiser just rolled
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 3: by with with Coop and mssus Coop and Essie in
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 3: the back, the W three dance team from here in Charleston.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 3: They've been around since twenty seventeen and they are high
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 3: stepping it down down the Capitol Street here this evening.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: They got some news going. They look great, good y'all guys.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 3: And behind them Kevin. Our way is the Capitol High
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 3: School marching maths. Let's see if we can get them,
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 3: get them to play for us here.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 14: Little jigle bells, the Capitol.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 4: High School marching band marching through the parade.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 3: Christmas parades.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 4: Wait twenty five.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 3: Here in downtown Charleston, and it sounds like Steve's got a.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 4: Fire truck roming by.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 7: I had that seceedar drove up your fire department right
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 7: in front of that was then a Charleston Health Department
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 7: is a big mobile unit. And then you had that
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 7: classic Clendon and fire truck that went by.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 4: Was nothing pretty.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm old, nothing to remember when fire trucks when
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 7: we looked like that, Well.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 6: Now they just got so much stuff on. You know.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 7: You look at the way that fire trucks looked at
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 7: the old days, and you're thinking, like, how did they put.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 6: A fire out with that?
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 4: But hey, Steve did, Yes, Hey Steve, I need to
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 4: interrupt you. We got a bigger name on.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 3: The line because ruined bringing up the rear.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 4: He is Santa.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 3: Santa has arrived at the end of the parade. He's
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 3: sitting in the big chair in front of the Christmas tree. Hey, Santa.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 8: Hey, you know every buddy, Hey, Santa Chriscott, he got
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 8: called for a stock Yeah.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 4: I wasn't a bad guy, honestly.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 3: I wasn't.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: I bet I don't get calling my stuck.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 3: So Santa's bringing up the rear, and right behind him
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 3: is the Charleston Police Department to finish things up, and
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 3: I guarantee you the street, the streets, we will be
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 3: here in above bit. They're sorry, Steve, that's gonna wrap
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 3: over our broadcast. Why not until the Cleandon and Fire
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 3: Department is finished with their serenade.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 6: Well that would be Jefferson. Now as mag.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 7: I'm telling you, one of my favorite things in the
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 7: parades are all the sirens and the lights.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 3: Absolutely all right, Well, Steve, Steve, it's about time to
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 3: wrap over a broadcast here. Appreciate you being in with
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 3: us and handling things over on Summer Street. I think
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 3: it just gives a different perspective to the coverage of
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 3: the parade. So Merry Christmas to you and everybody can
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 3: tune in to Charleston's Home for Christmas v. One hundred
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 3: while they're wrapping gifts or decorating, or just put it
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 3: on the background when you've got your party going on,
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 3: and it makes the perfect tune for that.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 6: There you go, Thanks guys.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 7: I enjoyed being here. It's always fun to get out
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 7: and do this parade.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 4: All right, we'll see Steve Merry Christmas.
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: Thank you guys so much. It was so much fun tonight.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 3: Lisa, it's been so nice to be here with you
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 3: this evening. And people may not realize that you and
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 3: I had never met until about five minutes before we
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 3: started this broadcast.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 8: And I think we did a great job tonight to
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 8: get We're a great team.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 3: Chris, coming up, Lisa and carl Lee and Hollis will
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 3: have the interview with Mark Snyder on the podcast that
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 3: will be following our broadcast.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 4: Many thanks to.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 3: Charleston Riverfront Water Sports, the sponsor of our event tonight,
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 3: and thank you all for listening. So I'll talk to
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 3: you tomorrow morning on the West Virginia Morning News. For
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 3: Steve Bishop and Lisa Odie. I'm Chris Lawrence. This has
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 3: been coverage of the twenty twenty five Charleston Christmas Parade
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 3: on five eighty WCS, The Voice of Charleston.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: This has been the twenty twenty six Charleston Christmas Parade
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: presented by Charleston Riverfront Watchersports. Our thanks to the City
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: of Charleston, Debrade volunteers, and all the performers who helped
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: make tonight celebrations shine for Steve, Bishop Lisa Ode, Chris
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: Wawrence in our entire WCHS Crew, Merry Christmas and good
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: night from Charleston