03/02/2026 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Rob James, Danny Jones, Mayor Amy Goodwin

Rob James of Celtic Calling, former Charleston Mayor Danny Jones, and current Charleston Mayor Amy Goodwin.

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She'll be in here just a little bit later on
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we get to all that, though, it's time for Celtic
calling you here to talk about this morning. Rob James,
Good morning, sir, welcome to the show. Hey, good morning,
thanks for having me, Thank you for beeter tell us
about this event. Well we got this is this is
actually this is the tenth Celtic calling. I think it's
been going on for I think we might have skipped
one one during the pandemic. So say everybody skipped COVID
didn't count tenth anniversary.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
Let's say tenth anniversary. So this is a tenth Celtic calling.
And it is more or less a week long event.
We get started on Wednesday, and we have events and
things like that going on all throughout the week. Great stuff.
We've got stuff for kids. We've got you know, we
we have kids games, things like that, and then we

(02:32):
have like even up to late night concerts and things
like that for adults and everything like that. So we have,
for example, Wednesday, we're kicking off. There's gonna be no
that's this Wednesday. This Wednesday, Wednesday, Okay, Wednesday. Absolutely, there's
gonna be a movie at the Florally, the Florally Hark

(02:53):
Cohen Cinema. There's a jam session at the bears Den,
and then coming up after that, we've got things going on.
We've got what's called a Kayley Dance, which is kind
of like a called dance, kind of like a square dance,
and that's that's taking place on Friday. Everything is available
on Facebook. There is way too much on the schedule

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for me to mention be here to like, you know,
untill noon, that'd be your whole show. Yeah, it'd be
and everybody would be bored out of their minds. It'd
be great. But the main thing is. The main thing
is Saturday, we're gonna have We're gonna take over slack
Plaza and we're gonna have Celtic events. Like I said,
We're gonna have kids games, crafts for the kids. We're

(03:35):
gonna have music, We're gonna have dancers, like traditional Celtic dancing,
things like that, and that is going to be all
day at slack Plaza, and we're going to cap it
off with a parade at four o'clock and everything at
slack Plaza. By the way, everything at slack Plaza is
free of charge. Celtic Calling is a nonprofit, so we

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don't charge anybody for anything. There might be some concerts
that happen in bars in the evening that will cost money,
but typically if you come down on Saturday and you
mentioned seventy five degrees in sunny, right, yeah, looks like
that's what we're gonna have.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, I mean, I've said that that's been a running
joke because of this winter, as bad as it's been.
But yeah, I mean I'm looking ahead, you know, right
now you're looking at I think there's a chance of
rain on Saturday, but it's a forty percent chance, yeah,
which means sixty percent chance that it won't and it's
going to be seventy eight.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
Yeah, it's going to be great, seventy eight and maybe
Sonny sixty percent chance of son Yeah. That Yeah, that's
a good.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Talk about your involvement in this rob how'd you get
involved this whole thing?

Speaker 4 (04:40):
Well, I Celtic Calling used to be kind of a
subsidiary of foot Mad, and I got involved because it
needed to be its own thing, So I established the nonprofit.
I've got a little bit of an accounting experience and
background in the accounting field, and we established a nonprofit.
I think it was five years ago, and since then

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it's kind of it's taken off to the point where
we're taking over downtown Charleston and I love it. I
you know, I'm just kind of the guy that makes
the trains run on time, but I do. I enjoy it,
and I think we do a great job just bringing
this to Charleston. It's it's a pleasure to bring something
to Charleston that is free for the most part, other

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than like some of the concerts, but it's a pleasure
to bring something to Charleston that's just a big event
for folks to do that that brings a lot of
Celtic culture out. The movies. The movie is great, the
dances are great. We love the music. We're gonna have
a band called Kinfolk and they're gonna be playing on
the main stage at Slack on Saturday. We're gonna have

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a band called House of Hammel that's gonna be playing well.
They're also they're gonna be playing on the main stage
and they're also gonna be playing at the what do
you call it now, the Resurrection Church Theater at twenty
three Summer Street. They're going to be playing through the
organization foot Mad at seven thirty. It's the concerts takes

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place at seven thirty, so seven thirty, get there at
seven and that you have to get tickets for. But
it's always a good time. It's always a great crowd.
At the end of Celtic Calling, a band called father
Son and Friends is also going to be calling it,
going to be playing at Short Story on Saturday night,
so all kinds of stuff going on, and I just,

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you know, essentially, I get cornered at a party. Somebody's like, hey,
you know about accounting stuff, and I'm like, uh yeah.
And so one thing led to another, and five years later,
here we are growing every year and excited to bring
it to you talking.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
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popularity of this thing, because I mean it's huge. It's
one of the bigger events that Charleston has. And I've
been doing the show for almost six years now and
every year I have somebody on to talk about it.
I mean, this thing has really you know, I mean
it was always always a big party, big celebration, but
it's really grown a lot over the years.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
It has it. It seems like it seems like every year,
if we can, we're adding something. It seems like that
we're getting a lot more folks downtown. We're really excited
about last year. I think it was we did it
on March first. We do it on the first, essentially
the first Saturday in March is what we build the

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festival around. And last Saturday in the last year it
was I think thirty eight degrees in Wendy, which kind
of goes along.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah, I mean, I know everybody wants it to be
like it's going to be this Saturday Sunday in seventy eight,
but for it's kind of like on Christmas man, you know,
for for a little bit of an atmosphere that was
kind of cool.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
I guess it was very Scottish weather, That's what I'm saying.
I think you could say. But we're as much as
we love our tribute to the Scots, we're definitely looking
forward to looking forward to having nicer weather and having
more folks come on out and we're going to have
crafters and vendors from from all around the state you know,

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local folks that produce things. We're gonna have our very
famous T shirts for sale every most every event that
leads up to Celtic Calling, like the kay Lee Dance
on Friday night, we will have some T shirts available
for sale because they go fast. People do love to
get the T shirt. So if you want to get
a T shirt, make sure that you're tending some of

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those earlier events and hopefully we can accommodate you. But
if not, we'll have them first come, first serve Saturday
at Slack Plaza. And we're you know, we're also we're
excited for the parade. If you if if you like bagpipes,
then this parade's for you. If you don't like bagpipes,
I don't really know what to tell you because we

(09:08):
got so many. Also, let me talk about something else,
and it kind of there's a couple of things that
kind of close the event, which is we have a
play contest. We have playwrights from around the world and
they submit plays and we have some wonderful local actors

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from Charleston that read these plays out and so and
then we decide, you know, and then through judges a
system of judging, we decide which one is the best play.
But it's great, it's a good time. We have five
different short plays and I encourage everybody to check that out.
And also on Sunday we have something called Irish road bowling,

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which is and that takes place in Canall State Forest
and Canah State four and so Irish road bowling is
incredibly fun. I've the treasure, so I'm the guy that
kind of makes sure that everybody gets paid and everything.
All the money happens like it is, so on Saturday,
I'm pretty much that's what I'm doing. Last year, I
think on Saturday I walked about fifteen miles just back

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and forth. But what I like to do, my Celtic
calling is road bowling on Sunday and Irish road bowling
essentially is what you're doing as you're taking the origin
is the sport is that it was a cannon ball.
That Irish soldiers being bored would take a cannon ball
and kind of roll it up the street. So you're

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taking something that is about the shape and weight of
a cannon ball, a small cannonball, now not like the
big things. It's not fired movies, and you're taking it
and you're doing it in teams and essentially you're bowling
it underhand up of road and you're kind of trying
to hit the curve of the road. That's why we

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do it in Kanawa State Forest is because it's a
sort of a challenging experience, but not too challenging other
than finding the ball. Sometimes that parts challenging because there's
nothing but there's a lot of leaf cover out there.
But so you take turns and teams throwing the balls
up the road as far as you can. And it's
kind of like golf. So whoever gets to you know,

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I think it's like a mile, a mile, a mile
and a half. Whoever gets there and the least number
of throws wins, So it is you know, it's it's
kind of like curling. You know, there was the curling
craze of the Winter Olympics in that you know, you
look at it and you think, oh, that's not that's
not that about you can do that something anybody can do,

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and to some extent that is true, But to some
other extent it's like you have to there is some
some athleticism involved and if you're more athletic at it,
then you're going to be better like curling. It's like
that to kind of slide up the ice with a
broom and do that in such a it's such a
fast speed. Is amazing to me. And I think, well,

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you know, there's some athleticism involved there. But road bowling
is kind of the same way. But it's not like
that with Celtic Calling. We just have teams, we have
everybody and you just come out. You have a good time.
If you win, great, But the main part, the most
fun part about road bowling is losing your ball in
the woods and digging around for it for several minutes

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to find it.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
All right, Rob, that's just one part of what's going on.
Remind people where they can where they can learn more
in the entire schedules. You said, it's way too much
for us to go over here on the radio, but
just remind people where they can look at the schedule.

Speaker 4 (12:31):
It is way too much. And I and we're really
excited about everything that we have going on because it's
gonna be downtown, it's going to be at the library,
it's going to be at several different venues in Charleston.
You can find it all. You can just search Celtic
Calling on Facebook. I don't know if there's more than
one out there, but if there is, just look for
the one in Charleston, West Virginia's hard to find. Yeah,
and the main post, the first post is pinned and

(12:55):
there is. It's I think it's about the size of
war and peace or some similar toll story novel. Some
great Russian master wrote this, and it will go. It
will take you all the way from I Actually, it'll
take you all the way from Tuesday all the way
up until Sunday. And if you look at it and

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you want to attend every event you want to celebrate
Celtic culture, you will never run out of things to
do because there is that much going on that's involved
with Celtic Calling.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
All right, Rob, I appreciate you being here. Man, Hey,
thanks a lot, All right, thanks a lot. It is
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you doing, my friend, I'm doing fun.

Speaker 7 (15:44):
Thank you for being sure inviting me?

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Oh yeah, man, You're always always welcome here, thank you,
until you're not until I kiddy, all right, let's get
serious Iran. I know you were watching the events. Most
of us woke up on Saturday morning. Uh and uh
and and and saw in the barrage that happened in Iran.
You're taking then we'll break it down from there.

Speaker 7 (16:06):
I'm in. I'm totally in. Okay, I think it was.

Speaker 4 (16:11):
It was.

Speaker 7 (16:15):
I think it's less about weapons than it is about
the regime change, right. I think it's and it may
be pretty pretty lopsided.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
The question A lot of people are asking, though, Danny,
and look, I think that even the most ardent Trump
detractors and Democrats you know, would would nobody is going
to argue with that regime going. I mean no one
and everybody thinks that. You know, and Iran without a
nuclear weapon is a good thing, okay, or without nuclear capabilities.
We get that. But one of the one of the

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one of the criticisms has been why.

Speaker 7 (16:52):
Now the focus is still on Trump? I mean, Tim Kaine,
you got people in Congress that are root for a
Ran to lead, she'd she'd be rooting for Iran. Uh
you you, I think it's why now? Why not now? Okay,

(17:12):
all right, now that should be done now.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Well, I mean, I think one of the one of
the complaints, one of the criticisms again has been, you
know when when the president uh did the previous action
in Iran, I mean, he came out and said that
the nuclear capabilities were obliterated. Okay, Well that turned out
to be a little bit of an exaggeration because because
they weren't completely they were set back, but oh they

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were set back tremendously. But to say that they were gone,
I don't think was entirely truthful. But there's there are
those that will say that. I even saw some online chatter,
people referring this as the Epstein invasion, that he was
doing this to basically to detract from the Epstein investigation

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or lack of and what's going to be probably disastrous midterms.

Speaker 7 (18:04):
Wag the dog. Yeah, I don't care. Yeah, it was
the right thing.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
Well, and you do have quite a bit of support
from the people in the country too.

Speaker 7 (18:13):
I've been watching I've been watching videos since two o'clock
this morning.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Well, yeah, I know, you texted me like I was
asleep and you again, I wake up at four thirty
this morning, and I've already had a texture of you,
like at two thirty this morning, I watched.

Speaker 7 (18:26):
General Petraeus and he said that the key to this
whole thing and what made it successful was it was
a daytime hit your broad daylight. Yeah, and when they knew,
I mean, we know everything they're doing. We have intelligence,

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and we know where the nuclear arsenal is.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
And I mean we were able to take out their
leader at about forty other leaders in one two fell swoops.
I mean we knew exactly, We practically knew what time
of the day the guy went to the bathroom and
where he was in the building we took out.

Speaker 7 (19:11):
We took out Akhmadano Jode and he was he was
there at the American EMPC. He was one of the
people that took us captive. He was twenty six years old.
And then he went on to become president of Iran.
And if people saw a picture of him, they might
remember him. And he went to US Columbia and he

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went to Boston University. And at one of those schools
they said, what what do you all do at homosexuals
in Iran? He said, well, we don't any humus in Iran.
And he's gone. He was part of the part of
the group that got which made me feel real good.

(19:58):
And we took out their forty top leaders. Now they
could replace them.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
Well, there was a succession plan already in for Haminae,
because I mean he was eighty six years old. I
mean he you know, so they already had a plan.
I listened to a couple of I listened to an
interview yesterday with one of their defense leaders who or
their ambassad or something like that. And he was on
a couple of news shows yesterday and look and he
came out and said, look, we are we cannot attack,

(20:26):
we cannot counter this on the United States. However, we
can go after people in the region, we can go
after embassies, we can go after whatever. And I just
wonder in America if we are going to start to
see because there's quite I mean there's outrage in America too,
from a lot of folks loyal to Iran And then
you you spent a lot of time in California. How

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many Iranians are in in Los Angeles.

Speaker 7 (20:50):
In they're Irvine there in Irvne, California, and they're all
for They're all for Trump.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
They're Well, that's what I was going to say, because
just because they're.

Speaker 7 (20:58):
They're all they're all for the Crown rents. And the
Crown Prince was on sixty minutes last night and I
don't think he wants to go back over there, but
I think he likes being in New York and live
in the kind of lifestyle. But he said he'd be
a transitional part of a government if they wanted him

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to be. But everybody holds up the Crown pictures of
the Crown Prince. Now when I say the Crown Prince,
I'm talking about the Shaw's son, and they're holding enough
signs because he's a symbol. He's a symbol of what
they want, the kind of thing they want. They want
a Western government, they want, they want it like it

(21:42):
was when the show was there.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Are you concerned as many are those that? I mean,
it's not going to be as simple as just going
in and doing I mean, look pretty dang simple on
Saturday what we did. However, now Iran is firing and
going after all these different countries. I mean have to
well yeah, I me because they can't hit here. So
I mean, are you you concerned this is going that
this is going to bring into a greater greater.

Speaker 7 (22:05):
They're hitting. They're hitting the people that were involved in
the Abraham Accords, which Jared Kushner put together. You a Bahrain,
those common places. But here's the question I had. Okay,
where's Saudi Arabia? Well, don't they send troops. The problem
with the people in Iran is there's a Second Amendment.

(22:30):
They don't have guns. That one guy that was on
Steph knoppolos Uh, he said that they killed three thousand
people because they were shooting at the Yeah, yeah, they
don't have guns. How they gonna shoot anybody? They don't
have guns. The people, the thugs have the guns, and

(22:51):
these are Savillians.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
Tex says, well, well, well, looks like Trump began a
tax on Iran to distract from the Epstein files. Looked
like American troops of already died as well alder protect pedophiles.

Speaker 7 (23:03):
That's not true.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Tex says, Yeah, we will see false flag attacks, attempts
to cancel the midterms.

Speaker 7 (23:10):
That's not true. That's not going to happen. With my
own personal opinion, the Republicans are going to lose the midterms,
especially in the House the Senate. They've got a shot,
They've got a shot and holding on. But it'll be close.
Depends on Collins. I think they're going to lose North Carolina.

(23:35):
Cooper will be its senator. Depends on Mitch McConnell's seat.
You know, Texas.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
I thought Trump was stopping wars. Now he's starting them.
This is just a distraction from everything crashing down on him,
the economy, Epstein, etc.

Speaker 7 (23:51):
Well that's what Tim Kaine says.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
And then we got a bunch of text about actually
from one person. I appreciated it, but it's a lot
of the same thing about because people said that the
in certain people said that. Adam shiff said, this is
that the president should not be able to do this
without congressional approval. Someone sent me various things where Obama,
Clinton and others had uh had had done similar things.

Speaker 7 (24:15):
He had, Yeah, he gave forty eight hours notice. He
Fetterman said that he gave forty eight They got the
Gang of eight or whatever it's called, that were notified
about this. And SHIFT, Yeah, I guess SHIFT would one
f hearings and uh, you know, can bring in witnesses

(24:37):
and and and make it go through and then after
a two month process, you know, pridiculous. We should have
done what we did. I'm not a Trump backer. I mean,
if you don't like Trump, okay, sorry with me.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Because you don't know.

Speaker 7 (25:02):
But I like this.

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Speaker 4 (25:15):
We knew that.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
The President said in his video that he did that
there would be casualties. There are going to be there's
gonna be more casualties. He said in one interview or
one statement that he's thinking this is going to take
four to five weeks. Most people familiar with the area
say it's going to take a lot longer than that.

Speaker 7 (25:31):
Well, that's something my it's out of my that's out
of my Bailey Wick. I wouldn't I wouldn't know. I
wouldn't think it would take that long.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
Well, it all depends on what I guess, what the
operation is and what other countries get involved. I haven't
heard a lot out of this day and he maybe
you have you study this more than I do. Haven't
heard a lot out of Russia. On this as as
Putin released these statements.

Speaker 7 (25:56):
About this, they're opposed to it. Well, I know, but
I mean I didn't know I said something. They had,
both them and China, and they'll say something in the
United Nations. And Putin's got a lot of room to,
you know, to criticize any other US for invading.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
A pot kettle color Black Texas Dave. Iran will never
stop trying to get a nuclear weapon. With the current
leaders Obama and Biden to be blamed for Iran's richest
to support many of the terrorists around the world. Thank
god we have a president that takes action against this
evil leadership in Iran. Thank you, President Trump.

Speaker 7 (26:30):
That's what I'm talking about. And you know, here's the problem.
Here's the big problem. We had an open border for
four years.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
They're here.

Speaker 7 (26:41):
I mean, people can set up set up something nine
to eleven cellar right here because they're in this country.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
How many Iranians are in this country though, I mean,
I know we talked about you said Irvine, California area
that you spend some time, but during that time, how
many Iranians can Irvines were?

Speaker 7 (26:59):
John Airport is right and the only reason I know
that because I was watching videos at two o'clock this
morning and they said they called it the city where
Ron is and they had all these people on the street,
and I think it was there or one of these
one of these cities where they said they had a

(27:21):
Shia mosque supposed to be open to twelve wasn't open.
And I mean, she is our enemy, not Sinny.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
It's it's always interesting to me, and it sometimes doesn't
set well with others when they president, whether it is Trump,
whether it's Bill Clinton, whomever, who didn't personally serve. And
you know, I mean, casualties are part of war. We
all know that, all right. But when President Trump, I
saw some criticism from some people who said that he said, well,

(27:54):
you know, they're going to be casualties. Yeah, from someone
who didn't serve and someone who got out of servey,
as did Bill Clinton. I'm being fair here, and sometimes
that just doesn't set well with people.

Speaker 7 (28:06):
Doesn't set well with me. But but you know, the
public elected this guy, and he's the commander in chief.
There's a lot of things not to like there. Yeah,
this draft dodger put his name on the Kennedy Center.

Speaker 4 (28:21):
John F.

Speaker 7 (28:22):
Kennedy was a naval war hero. What business did he
have a doing that or taking it over. They're going
to close it. It won't reopen until he's gone.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
Texas Republicans have started another war that Democrats will be
blamed for not ending properly or quickly enough.

Speaker 7 (28:40):
Oh I don't, I don't. I don't agree with that.
I think this is uh, this will be a count
in Trump's impeachment when the Democrats take.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
Over the House and he will be impeached. I mean,
oh yeah, yeah, Texas Dave mayor Danny has common sense
about President Trump's leadership to take out the current leadership
in Iran, the Anti America Democrat Party needs to get
behind this. We need action in Iran.

Speaker 7 (29:10):
There are some Democrats center behind it.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
Again, I don't know that. I don't know that anybody
except the extreme left is going to say that this
that that Iran is a that the world is a
better place with Iran having access to nukes. I think
even the most adamant, I mean, even the State Democratic
Party I got a statement from them on Saturday said
something to that. In fact, said, well, you know that
they were criticizing the way that it happened, not that

(29:34):
it happened.

Speaker 7 (29:35):
That's because these people hate Trump. I don't like you
me either, but I don't let that get in the
way a good policy.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
Right, So switch gears here just for a moment before
we let you go. Where are we on book news?
What's the situation with the books?

Speaker 7 (29:49):
Well, there are seven of them at the library. You
can't they're they're not available and there's sold out on Amazon.
So hopefully the guy who does that will get with
it on that. I watched another video this morning at

(30:12):
about Caracas, Venezuela, and it was it's a Soviet style city.
They had pictures free Maduro, they had pictures up of
Sulimani of all people, and they had handshakes with Theron.

(30:35):
I mean, it's a but having said all, it every
every There wasn't a lot of traffic, you know, a
lot of people, but everybody was nice to these people
walking through. And the woman that was leading the group,
they had two from England and the woman was from Russia,
spoke perfect English. But everybody was nice to them. Everybody,

(31:01):
and it's it's interesting to see what's gonna happen. See
they still have two interior minister and one other minister
that has a fifteen million dollar price on his head,
and the other had a twenty five million dollar They
were all part of the same drug, the drug business
that Maduro was. They just couldn't catch it. They couldn't

(31:24):
get them all.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Take us Texas. Dave, great to hear Danny on your program.
He has a tremendous amount of historical knowledge to do
the best. That's just the way to say. You're old, Danny.
That's what that is.

Speaker 7 (31:38):
That's right. But I know he's right, but I study it.
I urge people to buy the premium membership and YouTube
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Also all the eye install that, all the Tucker Carlson's

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why we should not be isolationists, because that's exactly what
led us into World War two.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
All Right, you got to leave it there, Danny. We'll
thank you talk again next week.

Speaker 7 (32:19):
The mayor's on our way.

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big event happening tomorrow on our sister station ninety six
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A lot of smoke, a lot of water damage, a
lot of things destroyed that simply cannot be replaced that easily.

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Talking about books and indoor play stuff, etcetera, etcetera. Well,
Rob Reeal KWS ninety six one and WVRC Media Charleston
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Know quickly before we get to the Mayor, I will
be away from the show on Thursday, also on Metro

(36:35):
News Midday, as I the time has finally arrived for
me to begin cancer treatments. This is like pre treatment,
I guess. So hopefully I'll be back on Friday. Mayor Charleston,
Amy Schuler Goodwin is here whose father went through the
same thing, and you're telling me, yeah, I may not
be here Friday.

Speaker 13 (36:52):
I mean, I think you know, this is what I think.
And I've known you for many, many many years, is that?
And just like my dad, just like members of my
own family, just like you know, our listeners, we are
a very resilient type of folk here in apple Eachi, right.
If you grow up in West Virginia, just like me,
you get up and you go to work. And sometimes

(37:13):
I'm not sure that we always take care of our health.
And while you are, I think sometimes we think, Okay,
I'm getting it done and then let's move on. Takes
a day or two. I mean, it just simply, it
just simply does. And I know, but that's the mental
you know, That's what I would say this, I would
give this same advice if it were a child of

(37:35):
mine or a parent of mine. I think that the
older I have a birthday next Monday. But the older
I get, the more I realize this is it. This
is the time you have. There's no additional on the
flip side. And work is important, but your health and
recovery is just as important. This is speaking to somebody
who rarely takes a day ever, but it.

Speaker 14 (37:59):
Is it is important, and we care about you.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
And plus I'm older than you, so.

Speaker 14 (38:04):
We have just medg I mean justice, I want to
I want.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
To ask you something real quick. We have a story
posted about it online. It has to do with the ballpark.
You guys are working on the lease with the ball
with the with Goimart Ballpark.

Speaker 14 (38:15):
Talking about that.

Speaker 13 (38:16):
So we were so delighted to have Andy Shehay come
into our lives and the Charleston Dirty Birds many many
years ago, because there was no baseball in the city
of Charleston, and so when we got here, we just
decided we needed to work with folks, and certainly we're
making improvements to the ballpark. We want you know, the

(38:36):
leases has been renewed and what we're trying to do
is just add the things that we know, and the
ownership is trying to the team. Ownership is trying to
add the things that they believe that they need. Of course,
it's a city facility, so we're trying to manage our
budget and add the things that we can and also
look forward because what we want out of this is

(38:57):
a long term lease. Listen, the city of Charleston needs bay.
We are going to have baseball. We just have to
work out things in the lease. I'll say this to you.
We've invested in the ballpark over the past couple of years,
more than ever except when it was you know, built,
and especially with the turf. It was a it was
a massive project. And we continue to look at what

(39:17):
are the things that they need to keep a team here.
And so is it everything from netting to locker room.
You know, by the way, it's not the lap of luxury.
It's you know, simple things, but it's you know, it's
important stuff like upgrading bathrooms and tiling and you know,
some new carpeting.

Speaker 14 (39:36):
It just things like that.

Speaker 13 (39:37):
Anytime you do a lease, and people who know run
businesses understand this as well. You've got to make sure
that the lease suits everyone. So those are just the
things that we're working on. So we have an extension
of this lease and looking at signing a lease in
the future for a long term stay for them, because
that's what we want Texas.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
Can you ask the mayor about I mean this will auditorium.
They seem interested in making money and missing out the
medium sized concerence. Every day that building sends empty and
continues dilapidate.

Speaker 13 (40:03):
No, we're not interested in losing money. I can promise
you that right now. But what we want to do
is do the right thing, not the quick thing. There
is nobody that understands how much we're losing more than
I do, maybe except for the management and OVG who
we have managing the facilities for us. What we did
last week is we had a great conversation with the
Colisseum and Convention Center Board. They have a Municipal Auditorium Committee,

(40:30):
three members of council, three members of the Colisseum and
Convention Center Board, and they went over and listened to
the findings of the ZMM group and the architects and
engineers about the structure and the facility where it is
right now, and then the charge of the board as
directed by their chair woman is to also understand what

(40:56):
other venues are like this across the country. What are
the things that we can do with the current building,
and what are the things that other cities of our
size need. There is no mistake we need. As a
matter of fact, I had a conversation this morning in
eight thirty this morning with somebody who clearly understood the
little theater at the Colisseum and Convention Center eight hundred

(41:19):
ish super important, the Clay Center super important, size the
coliseum and with the new seats, you know, ten eleven
thousand folks you can fit in there. Actually probably a
little bit more, but we are missing that and it
served us well that thirty eight hundred, that thirty eight

(41:39):
hundred mark to forty two hundred. So that's I think
that's what the texture is referring to make no mistake
about it. We understand how important it is, but we're
also going to take our time. It's a massive investment,
and this is something by the way, that is going
to far outlive this administration and other sowing to make
sure we do it right.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
I had some and again we're talking with the Charles
Miami's good when we had some discussion the last couple
weeks about the term moment thing. Yeah, in Charleston, a
couple of city council folks reached out to me about coming,
and then three more reached out to me about coming on.
You want to state for the record where you are
on the termin situations for mayor city council.

Speaker 14 (42:16):
Yeah, I'm super happy to.

Speaker 13 (42:17):
I'll go ahead that, and then I'll pivot to the
thing I think we need to be talking about. I
think this discussion, as it's come up very quickly from
some is certainly an important discussion to have. We've been
having this conversation for many years now, but it needs
to be tied into I think the entire structure of

(42:38):
city government. I think when you've had a city government
that has been in place in this structure for one
hundred years dave plus, you need to look at all
of it, not just an office or an entity. I
am opposed to a very large council.

Speaker 14 (42:56):
I just am. I always have been.

Speaker 13 (42:58):
But by the way, when we arted those discussions many
years ago, we heard quite clearly from members of the public,
including members of city council, know we want a representative
government just for those who are listening, who may not know.
We have twenty six members of council. It's the largest
per capita in the country. Is it challenging? You better
believe it, because, Oh, by the way, the thing I'm

(43:19):
going to talk about here in just a minute, which
is what we focus on just in the past week,
as people are trying to shove things through and push
things through. Oh, by the way, it's an election season.
Go figure. We have to continue to run government. We
have to continue to be focused on the things that
we need to be focused on, like making sure the

(43:39):
fire department has a new ladder truck, making sure that
our police have the resources they need, our city employees,
making sure there're salts on the road.

Speaker 14 (43:47):
So let me be very clear.

Speaker 13 (43:50):
While I am in favor of a smaller city council,
I am not in favor for term limits for city council.
I am just not. I think in a time and
a space and a place that is so difficult to
get people to run, by the way, it is not
the lap of luxury. Public service is really really difficult. Nights,
weekends and holidays. I don't see my children, I don't

(44:12):
see my husband. It's a really really hard thing to do.
But I do believe in term limits for executive offices.

Speaker 14 (44:19):
I do, yeah.

Speaker 13 (44:21):
And what they are across the country are they're three
fours or two sixes. That's again I've studied this for years.
I am in favor of that. But doing it, you know,
piecemeal and not together looking at the entire structure, I
think is just you know, trying to shove things down
people's faces. The other thing will I will say to

(44:41):
you is when you work with twenty six folks. We
have twenty six council members. And by the way, that's
not the directors, that's not I have seven hundred and
fifty colleagues that we work with every day, and then
our businesses and then out on tens of thousands. I
think that it takes time. If you really want to
do something monumental and you really want to make good chance,
it actually takes time. It actually is the hardest thing

(45:04):
that people do. I used to say this all the time.
Senator Manchin used to say, I wanted to bring everybody
and we're going to sit down at the table, both sides.
And I remember hearing when he used to say that
and thinking, well, that how hard is that?

Speaker 14 (45:17):
It's hard?

Speaker 13 (45:18):
It's really, it's really challenging, and I think what people
are realizing is really challenging to sit down with folks
who may not agree with you, and maybe even some
people who may not like you, and have a good
and honest and upfront conversation.

Speaker 14 (45:33):
That's where we need to be heading.

Speaker 13 (45:34):
But these conversations do what I despise of the politics
that creeps into public service. Tonight, I'm going to present
a one hundred and thirty nine page, one hundred and
thirteen point six million dollar budget. Shouldn't we be talking
about that? Because I want to talk about that.

Speaker 14 (45:54):
That's what we.

Speaker 13 (45:54):
Should have people be talking about and asking questions about,
you know, what what are we doing to fun You know,
the capital that we need to have.

Speaker 14 (46:03):
Our trucks are cars.

Speaker 13 (46:04):
Municipal government is the government that should be focused on
public services to the people. We should be talking about
trash collection. We should be talking about our fire department,
our police department, all of public works. Those are our
park and rec systems. You're going to hear me talk
about that later on tonight. But what we are going

(46:26):
to continue to focus on in this season and throughout
is the reason why.

Speaker 14 (46:31):
People elected us to be here.

Speaker 13 (46:33):
Is to do the heavy lifting on stuff that, by
the way, you may not think it's sexy. This is
our job, these one hundred and thirty nine pages, that's
our job, all right.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
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News made a couple of weeks ago, and I haven't
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so Taco to talk about the Capital Sports Complex.

Speaker 13 (49:01):
First, well, Capital Sports Complex, as many of your listeners
saw and through your reporting, through your outstanding news organization,
we received yet another milestone step forward with the federal
appropriation of seven million dollars thanks to Senator Shelley Mark
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(49:23):
these are the things that we are cheering certainly and celebrating,
you betcha. But what people want to know is what's
the date? Well tying into the mall, those conversations are continuing.
You heard me say it just last month that we
have been in discussions with the whole group about their

(49:45):
interest in giving them all to us, and what does
that look like and what does that look like for
the city. Quite frankly, and what is the liability that
we take on? And so we have start guarded developing.
What is in essence the framework of a development organization?

(50:08):
What does that look like, What do the mall assets
go into? What other cities and communities have done this.
It's a big undertaking. It's a huge undertaking. And you know,
through the past year and a half when you ask
for updates and you know you think I'm being cute
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(50:28):
anybody is sitting here listening to well, the answer must
be really simple. You probably don't understand how complex this
problem really is. If you think that I have a
magic want and can make it happen tomorrow, I will.
This is what I want. I want that site to
be developed to the best and highest use it can
possibly be.

Speaker 14 (50:45):
Is that the donation to the city. We think so.

Speaker 13 (50:48):
But if it's something else, I'm all ears, Oh by
the way, I don't own it, and for me to
take it would be imminent domain, and that opens up
an entire can of worms for non development and negotiations
for years and shut a lot of things down. So
that's my answer to both of those questions.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
All right, real quick, Yeah, salt supply in the city.
We got freezing rain rolling through this morning in certain areas.
They tell us that we may be done with winter,
but we've had some big snows in the past in
March and April in our part of the world. Thirty seconds,
where are we on salt supply in the city.

Speaker 13 (51:19):
Thank you so much. We've got salt on the ground.
We have another order coming in. But let me not
mistake is just like what I talked to you about
the meat and potatoes of what we do. We are
negotiating right now to have a couple more tons dumped
on the ground, just in case. Do I think this
might be our last one, you know, as we trickle in.
But as I just said to you, my birthday is
in a week. I have played golf on my birthday

(51:41):
and I've gone skiing on my birthday, and so mother
Nature's fickle. So we're certainly keeping our eye to the
sky and certainly on our piles.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
Tellus and Mary Amy Schulder, good one. Appreciate you being there.

Speaker 14 (51:52):
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
Thanks a lot, TJ what you got on talk line today.

Speaker 16 (51:55):
So coming up on today's show, we'll talk a Ron
check in with Jonathan Savage, five News in the London Bureau.
Get the latest. Robert Bolton, Fairmont State has his thoughts.
Also going to talk about Senate Bill ten seventy one.
It would put the state of West Virginia in the
machine gun business. You heard me, right, the state of
West Virginia in the machine gun business.

Speaker 7 (52:13):
Right.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
And we're going to talk about adult cabarets. Yea, we
might get into that, all right, Well, well for once
I'll listen then, Okay, oh wow, Jase, thanks appreciate. DJ
Meadows Wilson coming up with Metro News talk Line coming
up at ten oh six. I'll be lying back later
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Live anchor Manded Baron. We'll see you then. Until then,
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