07/30/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Chief John Garten, Zack Harold

New Dunbar Police Chief John Garten and Zack Harold, new Director of FestivAll.

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or so of the heat today, impossibly tomorrow, maybe some

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severe weathering. It's really interesting because yesterday I was driving
home yesterday afternoon and get to about westbound sixty four
at about Institute and you know where the traffic is
delayed there anyway where they're doing whatever, and so I'm
delayed there a little bit and it just comes an
absolute day, I mean pouring, pouring the rain for about

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two minutes. And by the time we got moving and
I got to let's say, Saint Albans exit Winfield exit,
I don't think it rained at all. It's just that's
just kind of the weather pattern that we're in right now.
But they say it's gonna break and we're actually gonna
have a really really nice weekend. Good news on Friday night.
The way it looks right now for Live on the Levee.
We'll talk to Jim Strawn about that on Friday. So
enough about the weather. Coming up, there is a new
director of Festival for Charleston named is Zach Harold. And

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if you have been a student of journalism or you've
consumed any journalism, you know the name is Zach Carro,
a long time journalist. Well, he's the new director Festival.
He's going to join us coming up a little bit
later on the show. Plus we're going to get some
several things in the news as well. And as always,
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nine three five five zero zero eight. Want to welcome
and now Chief John Gartin from the Police Department of Dunbar.
A good morning, sir, and welcome to the show.

Speaker 5 (02:58):
Good morning, Dave, are you.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
I'm doing find you. I have to forgive me because
sometimes with me doing this show in Metro News Midday,
I get my mornings and afternoons mixed up. So I'm
just gonna have to start saying hello because i always
get it wrong. It's good morning when I'm on this show,
it's good afternoon when I'm on that show. And also
we have with us Deputy Chief Brian Griggs. All right,
appreciate both of you for being here today. Chief Hold
to start with you, the problems at the Dunbar Police

(03:22):
Department have been very well documented, but that's not really
why you're here today. Other than you, there are folks
like yourself, you're deputy here that are trying to create
a new culture there with the dun Part Police Department.
You talked about a little bit with us when we
had you on Metro News Midday a week or so ago.
Talk about this culture that you're trying to create.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
What you're trying to change the whole mindset at the
More Police Department, excuse me, to make sure that the
guys are held accountable for their actions. And you know
it starts from the bottom up. You know, obviously it
starts from the top down. Actually, myself and Deputy Chief Greggs,
we hold our ove to the same standard as we
expect our officers to act, and you know, their actions

(04:04):
will have consequences, and that's what we're trying to get
that mindset, to show those guys that you could still
do good, solid police work the right way, and it's
just so you do it the right way, and that's
what we're trying to change down there.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
Talk about your background as a police officer.

Speaker 5 (04:19):
I started with the Charleston Police Department back in nineteen
ninety five. I worked my way up from the ranks
from probationary patrolman always up to the deputy Chief of Police,
and after twenty nine years and twenty one days there,
I retired last September. I was retired about fifteen days.
I was that long, huh? I was, yeah, a long time,
you know, asked my wife. She'll tell you. The police

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chief position came open in Dunbar. I applied for it,
and after the interview process down there, the mayor and
city council decided that I was the fit for the
job and I got hired sworn in October seventh of
last year. So I've been there a little over nine
months now.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
What was it originally about being a police officer anywhere
that made you go into this field? John?

Speaker 5 (05:00):
You know, I think looking back, I've always been the
type of person that have always liked to help people
that couldn't help themselves, you know, And it's really the
sense of serve and protect, And it's more the serving
side of it, helping people and giving people hope and
a chance that things can be better and changed. So
that's the biggest thing, and.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
We talked about that changed a little bit. As I said,
the problem has been well documented. We don't need to
necessarily rehash them. Their lawsuits, money paid out. One of
the officers in question that centered the controversies now left
the department. But from this point you're just trying to
move on.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
Yeah. After you know, after starting back nine months ago
and kind of rebuilding, things has gotten a lot better.
You know, like I said earlier, when guys actions and
beliefs are and their consequences to their actions, they had
two choices, you know, follow what we wanted to do

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the right way, or you know, they had to go
somewhere else, and you know, some of them chose to
go somewhere else and now you know, the mindset and
uh and the model down at Numbar has changed to
a positive way.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
De Wuty Chief Griggs want to ask you what was
that made you want to become a police officer?

Speaker 5 (06:12):
Same.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
I just wanted to help my community.

Speaker 6 (06:14):
And you know, I at a job bear in high
school really with a trooper, and you know, I thought
that was the best way to to help your community.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
I mean, I think that's you know, in order to
do I've always said that there are these certain professions
that you really got to love to want to do
it well. And I think police officer, any emergency service official, doctor, nurse, teacher,
you know those those are some of those. You've got
to have a passion for it and the and the

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want to john to help others.

Speaker 5 (06:47):
Yeah, it's definitely was a calling for me. That's something
when I went to college and I went to state college.
Well it's not state college anymore, but it was when
I went the first time. Yeah, you know, I went
into criminal justice, and it's something that that it was
almost like a passion or a calling for me to
want to help people and to me being a law
enforcement officer in that profession was the way I wanted

(07:08):
to get back, and that's what I did.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Talking again with the folks from the Dunbar Police spar
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location near you. All right, so how many officers do
you have now on Dunbar Police spark Fully staffed?

Speaker 5 (07:32):
I have sixteen positions, but right now I have.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Twelve.

Speaker 5 (07:37):
I have twelve have four vacancies right now that we're
trying to feel. Like I said on the show last week,
I believe that we have a hiring test coming up
on September thirteenth of this year, starts at nine o'clock
and we're going to hold our testing at the Dunbar
Middle School and we're looking for good applicants, good solid
applicants that wants to one continue with the change of

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Dunbar and two that wants to help the community be
better and build that bridge back. Because I think the
bridge between the Dunmore Police Department and the community in
the city of Dunbar was fractured and we need some
good candidates to help rebuild that bridge.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
What makes a good police officer, in your opinion.

Speaker 5 (08:17):
Communication skills. You've got to be able to talk to people.
You know, ninety nine percent of police work is really
just communication. Being able to go to a scene and
get the correct information that you need for the offense
that possibly occurred, but to make sure that you talk
to somebody in a way that's comforting, that makes them
feel that when you're talking to them that you know,

(08:38):
because we do care. I know some people don't think
we do, but we really do. And that's the biggest
thing is just communication, being able to talk to people
the right way.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
And I have interviewed so many police officers over my
years of my career and one of the things that
they always talk about, and this goes along with that
you're saying, chief with communication, it's communication with the community
as well, and not always the community members that have
caused problems, just the average ordinary citizens that just want
a better community.

Speaker 5 (09:06):
Yeah. When I first got hired down there, you know,
that's my goal was, you know, when I had some
slow time, is I'd drive around the city and I'd
have my window down to my car and I'd wave
at people. And you know, some of the reactions that
I got was kind of different because I don't think
they were used to having a policeman wave at them.
And but then again, we're trying to build trust. And

(09:27):
like I said last week, you know, you start with
the little trust and then it gets the big trust.
And that's what I'm trying to do with myself and
WT Chief Griggs is doing that as well. Is you know,
we got to we gotta do a total rebuild. It's
almost like a football or or a basketball team where
you kind of get rid of, you know, things that
you need to get rid of, and you just kind
of rebuild the way you want to.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
To use a sports analogy, people enter the transfer portal.

Speaker 5 (09:50):
Sort of kind of you know, sort of kind of
that's about right, you know, in this day and age.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
Anyway, Deputy Chief Griggs, what what was it or what
in your opinion I should say makes a good pleace officer?
We heard what Chief said. What do you think makes
a good police officer?

Speaker 6 (10:03):
You've got to have integrity, Uh, Unfortunately, in our line
of work, you gotta do a lot of writing.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
So you need to have some money. People don't. And
I got a lot of friends to the police officers.
They I guess we were all spoiled by watching television,
you know, especially Yeah, I grew up in the seventies
and you saw all the cops shows from Chips and
you know, start skinning hutch and whatever, and a lot
of folks, I think don't realize that. At times. I
never want to use the term boring, but at times

(10:28):
it can be very routine work that you're doing.

Speaker 6 (10:30):
Yeah, but you know the communication skills, Like he said,
you got to get the information. But it's also very
important that if you want to be a police officer,
if you know how to write that information or I
guess in.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
This day and age, type type of information.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
What do you see primarily? And how long have you
been on the job there, chief at Dunbar. Yeah, a
little over nine months? Okay, a little over nine months,
So I prefer to use the new chief you've actually
been on the job for a while. What's what sort
of what's an average day, like, what's what kind of
crimes you see on a regular basis down there.

Speaker 7 (10:58):
You know.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
Right now, the biggest thing we have in Dumbar's the
nuisance offenses. You know, individuals walking doing things in the
middle of the night, going in people's yards, taking stuff
that don't belong to them. Occasionally there's gonna be you
need autos. But you know, for the most part, Dumbar
is a very safe community as far as like some
of the major crimes go, like murder, malicious winning and

(11:20):
stuff like that. But it's just the noose and stuff
that basically every city has. It's just that's the thing
that we try to address more right now than we
have in the past.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
All Right, So I'm going to give you an opportunity
to sell if you will, because you need people and
you and I talked about this on the phone last
week following our interview that you did with Amandaid myself.
You need people, you need officers. Tell me exactly what
it is you're looking for.

Speaker 5 (11:44):
You know, we're looking for solid, good, communicated skill individuals,
you know, and the Dunbar Police Department we offer a
lot of different things as well.

Speaker 8 (11:55):
You know.

Speaker 5 (11:55):
One of the things that we offer is we have
a take home con Prossy every officer on the department
has a take home car.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
We're one of.

Speaker 5 (12:02):
The three or four cities in the state that has
its own contract with the city and the FOP, and
our probationary base salary for those probationary officers is a
little over fifty thousand dollars a year, and then once
you get off probation it jumps up to almost fifty
five thousand dollar year, which is for the city. The
size of Dunbar is very competitive with the other bigger
cities and the bigger agencies around here, so that's not bad.

(12:24):
And you know, if you're certified as an EMT, if
you have a four year degree, a two year degree,
or if you're a certified law enforcement instructor to the
State of West Virginia, we add to your base pay
as well, so you know, the more that you want
to do and you want to get back to the
profession and the community, you know, we pay you. We
compensate you for that, which is very important as well.

(12:45):
So that's the thing that we're trying to offer and
right now we're in the works with the city to
offer a sign on bonus for certified West Virginia Police
officers like a lot of other agencies do around here.
We're trying to figure out how much the city can
can put forth towards another certified police officer, which is
which is something that basically all the other cities are

(13:07):
doing too, uh, because we have to put stay competitive.
I think in the past the Sea of Dumbar went
with quantity in set of quality. And that's one of
the biggest things that I wanted to change is you
have to be the right fit for this profession, to
do it the right way, to keep the liability and

(13:29):
the litigation down. And that's and that's what we're trying
to do here.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
All right, now, tell us where you're going to be
again for this.

Speaker 5 (13:37):
You could pick up a pre application online at city
Hall or at the Dunbar Police station there on Leon
Way at nine o'clock September thirteen, twenty twenty five at
the Dunbar Middle School. If you don't fill in an
application or do a pre app as fine, just show
up your driver's license. We'll get your information and uh
and we'll allow you to test.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
All right, sounds good. We may have you on between
now and then to kind of remind people. How's that
sound perfect. We'd love to be here all right, John
Garton and also Wit Chief Grigs. Appreciate you both being here.
Thanks a lot, good luck with what you're doing there
in Dunbar. Appreciate you both.

Speaker 5 (14:09):
Thank you.

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There's a new director of Festival and Charleston's name is
Zach Harold and he joins us now. Good morning, sir,
and welcome to the show.

Speaker 13 (16:54):
Good morning, how are you doing.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
I am doing fine. What made you want this jobs.

Speaker 13 (16:58):
Ech, Well, I'm a lifelong Canon Valley resident. I've been
a fan of Festival since the beginning and saw the
job open up and thought that sounds like.

Speaker 14 (17:09):
A lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
Talk about your background.

Speaker 13 (17:13):
Well, started my career at the late Great Charleston Daily
Mail as an education reporter. Eventually became the Life and
Entertainment editor over there, and got out when the papers
merged and went to West Virginia Living Magazine, where I
was managing editor. And then for the last six years,
I've been with the West Virginia University Extension Service doing

(17:37):
some multimedia for them, but I'm also freelancing for all
kinds of publications locally, nationally, that kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
So what was it about the whole writing aspect, Because
the one theme I'm seeing in your career here, Zach,
is that there was always writing involved. What is it
that you enjoy about being an author so much?

Speaker 13 (17:58):
It's just when I was in high school, I was
part of the gazette flip side program where they let
high schoolers right for the paper, and I got into
a drag race event on a press pass and I
was like, they let people do this for a job.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah, you're exactly right.

Speaker 13 (18:17):
Yeah, so that was the initial appeal. But the way
that connects to festival is like, throughout my entire journalistic career,
I've really been interested in supporting and uplifting the arts,
you know, drawing attention to local musicians and artists and
performing troops like our theater groups here in town. And

(18:39):
this seemed like a way, this festival job seemed like
a way to continue that support in a more direct way.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
And for those and of course festival has been around,
you know, for some time, but maybe those that are
listened to us for the first time or maybe aren't familiar.
Explain if somebody ask you your elevator spece of exactly
what festival is.

Speaker 13 (19:00):
Well, the tagline is a city becomes a work of art.
That's a pretty good explanation for what it is. It's
a festival that incorporates all different art forms, visual art, music,
performing arts and scatters them around the city and ticket
I mean, it's free to attend, so it's accessible for everybody.

(19:20):
That's all interest of all, and it's just trying to bring,
you know, things that maybe you wouldn't normally see in
a place like Charleston, West Virginia and exposing people to
that stuff. I mean some of the events that I've
attended over the years, it feels like rewired my brain.
I saw my first live Shakespeare play performed by this
group out of Virginia for Festival, and it was like

(19:42):
totally different experience than reading it in English class. You know,
it came to life, and it's just about providing people
those kind of opportunities to experience art.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
Yeah, there is something to be said for your exactly
right of any kind of art, or whether it's a
Shakespearean play, whether it's a concert or whatever, it's a
lot different. Hits a lot different when you actually see
it done live in.

Speaker 13 (20:07):
Person, Oh my god, and even more when it's like
in your backyard too.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
Yeah, exactly. We're talking to Zach Carold, who is the
new executive director of Festival, So what are your plans
for Fest of All coming. It's been success all these years,
but what are your plans.

Speaker 13 (20:22):
We just want to continue what Festival has always been
known for, bringing innovative, exciting programming to Charleston, and we're
really looking at expanding. I mean, the landmark event has
always been a festival in the late spring, early summer.
We're looking at expanding that programming year round. There's Festivefaal

(20:43):
that's already that's been going on for several years, coming
up in October, but doing more programming year round, doing
some education inside local schools to bring the arts to
those kids and those cam that he's outside Charleston as will,

(21:03):
just making continuing that legacy festival but kind of pushing
it a little bit further as we enter our next
two decades.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
And you mentioned Festive Fall, and you said that's going
to be coming up in October. And I know, fall
and winter seem like a million years away right now
because with the heat index it's one hundred and eighty
eight degrees. It seems like outside. But what can you
tell us? We'll have you on of course as we
get closer to festival, but look ahead a little bit.
What do you planning for Festive Fall?

Speaker 13 (21:30):
Well, you're gonna have to forgive me. I don't take
the job until the fifteenth.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
I'm asking you a whole lot. Dann Alight.

Speaker 13 (21:37):
I'm sorry, I'm just not I'm not ready to speak
on that yet. I got you, I got I officially started,
but it's gonna I mean every year it's it's packed
with you know, local vendors coming in, artists selling their stuff.
It's a great place to get some early Christmas shop
and done for sure.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yeah, exactly is again. Zach Carrol is the new executive
director of Festival and part of that is Festive fall.
And once he's got in and got settled and the
inks drying, the contract will have him. Been talking about
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You know, there was a time. Festival has got a
very unique history, and I know you're still I mean,
even though you've been a part of it, you're still
learning about it because you're new to the job, haven't
even officially started the job yet. But it does have
a very very unique and interesting history here in Charles
So and there was a time, if I understand correctly,

(22:36):
that it went on for a little bit longer. It's
kind of been scaled back as many many things have.
What would you like to see going forward as far
as a timeline for festival a shorter, longer, What do
you think?

Speaker 13 (22:47):
Well, you're right, it has changed over the years. I
think when Larry Gross started it back in the early
two thousands, it started as weekend, then expanded to a
week and then it was two weeks and it's this year.
It was this May into May, early June it was
it was one weekend. Again, I think it's four days.
But our plan is to have a week long, a

(23:08):
week long festival, you know, late spring, early summer. When
festival started, Regatta wasn't on the schedule anymore. You know,
it wasn't on a high for several years. So it's
like trying to find that balance working with other events
in Charleston. So you know, a rising tide lifts all boats.
We're not trying to compete with anybody who're just all

(23:30):
pulling in the same direction.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
And you mentioned Regatta and one of the when I
have the Mayor on or others from Regatta every year,
it's always well, I want it to be like it
was when it was over Labor Day, you know, the
nine ten days around Labor Day, and I mean, you know,
quite frankly everybody would like that. But Charleston is not
the place that it used to be. Not the same.
But it's not great.

Speaker 8 (23:49):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
But you know, Regatta went away for a couple of
years because of a lack of big time sponsorship, and
luckily they were able to get some folks on board
that really believed in it in order to bring it back.
To Mayor ran her campaign bringing bringing Regatta back and
she did so. Uh, you know, you got you gotta
you gotta the crawl before you can run, as they say.
And so there's an opportunity, I think, in the future

(24:09):
for this thing to grow, because it's always been great,
but there's a chance for you and others and you know,
to grow it even more. I want to talk about it,
and I know you're not on the job yet, but
I do want to talk about volunteers, because these events,
whether it's festival, whether it's the you know, the art walks,
whether it's any of the great events that going in
Charleston and the surrounding areas, they're not possible without volunteers.

Speaker 13 (24:29):
Talk about that exactly. No, The team, at first of all,
is small and it's amazing that such a small team
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Speaker 9 (25:03):
All right.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
Sounds good, Hey, Zach, I know that you took time
out of some personal things to be with us on
the show today and hit you up even before you
officially you don't even know where the restroom is yet, buddy,
you're just learning right now. So they showed me that
you got that taken care of. All right, So when
you're ready to start it, what'd you say it was
August fifteenth? Is that what you said?

Speaker 13 (25:21):
August fifteenth?

Speaker 3 (25:22):
All right, we'll have you back on as we get
a little bit closer, especially to Festive Fall, because we've
always our company has always been a big part of
all the activities going on in Charleston, particularly things like this,
and so we'll have you back on and we'll talk
about what I'm sure going to be a great festive
fall and a great festival next year. Zach appreciated, Buddy.

Speaker 13 (25:38):
I sure appreciate it, all right, Zach get started.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
All right? Sounds good. Zach Harrold is the new executive
director of Festival here in Charleston. Festive Fall happening in
the month of October. And as I said, it is
hard to believe. I mean, you know, it's interesting because
if you follow us in social media, Chris Lawrence every
morning does a photo on our social media and it's

(26:00):
just like kind of a preview of what's coming up
in the morning news. He and Jeff and Daniel and
all the others that take part in the morning news.
And this morning, Chris being Chris, posted a picture of
the West Virginia State Capitol steps covered in snow, and
he said something to the effect of only one more day. Well,
it's not one more day toil snow, but it is

(26:21):
one more day, one or two days until we actually
get some cooler temperatures in here, because it's just been
absolutely ridiculously hot and human with showers and thunderstorms popping up.
Looks like we got that today, we got that tomorrow.
But then after that we are going to get a break.
And it is shaping up to be And as the
folks in the Weather Service will tell you, you never want
to get too ahead of yourself. It is shaping up

(26:42):
to be an absolutely beautiful summer weekend. And that's great
because there's so many activities going on. I know the
Taste of Nitro is going to be going on. That's
just one of the activities all over the state of
West Virginia. So many things here in the Canal Valley
going on as well. So I'll say this, get through today,
get through tomorrow, because by the time the weekend rolls around,
it looks like we are going to have some great,

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good stuff in your community across the greatest State of
West Virginia. Last week we went up to wheeling and
talked to some folks that were going above and I
mean that flood recovery effort in Ohio County has just
been off the charts. But there's one lady in particular

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that has just done a great job. We featured her
last week. We featured people from all over and this
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But doesn't mean we can't honor people here in the
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and today, don't want to spoil it for you, but
we are going to talk to a gentleman who is
actually from right here in the Kanawha Valley that was
recommended to us, who has done a just a great
great job of doing things with veterans and particularly Vietnam
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Dirty Birds is here. The Birds are in the middle
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(31:44):
attention though to this Saturday night over at Goldmart Ballpark,
because it is eighties nights at the ballpark, and our guys, Shockley,
he of all of the long flowing locks, is going
to be throwing out the first pitch. And I got
to get a hold of Shockley and see I want
him to come in on the show with Jill tomorrow.
So mister shock if you're listening right now, consider this

(32:06):
your invite. I'd like to have you on the show
with Gil with Jill tomorrow because again it's eighties night
over to ballpark and as I mentioned I mentioned earlier,
the weather is going to be fantastic this weekend, so
we're going to have all kinds of eighties fun at
Gomart Ballpark and Shockley from a sister station ninety eight
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the first pitch, so they'll join us on the show tomorrow.

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Also this Saturday, I briefly mentioned this earlier. The Taste
of Nitro is going on and our sister station to the
Mountain will be broadcasting live from there Saturday. Steve Animal
will be there along with the folks at Secure Net.
Joe Stevens from the City of Nitro will join us
to talk about that, plus your calls and text. It's
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at wvmetronews dot com. The Parkways Authority is trying hard

(33:13):
not to have a repeat of what happened a few
months ago with all those people being stranded on the turnpike.
I actually knew a few of them personally interviewed them
on the air. The Parkways Authority had their meeting at
Tamarak yesterday. Jeff Jenkins was there and writes about it
this morning lead storywv Metronews dot com. Jeff was able

(33:33):
to catch up with the executive director of the Authority,
Chuck Smith, and mister Smith outlined basically a five step approach,
which you can read for yourself over at the website.
And the biggest thing that I would take away from
it is simply communication. In talking and interviewing people that

(33:57):
were trapped on the turnpike upwards of eight hours that night,
it seemed that the biggest issue was indeed communication because
simply put, no one knew what was going on. There
was no info being given to media outlets. I mean,
we have people in our newsroom twenty four hours. Television

(34:17):
stations do as well. None of us knew what was
going on. And it wasn't for lack of trying, you know.
I mean, I wasn't personally working on the story, but
I know Jeff and others in the news department here
of the TV stations, I'm sure the newspaper was they
were all trying to find out what was going on
as well, and simply no communication was going out. And

(34:40):
so that's one of the things. That's the main thing
I think is that people when you travel, you know
sometimes there's going to be delayed, there's going to be
car wrecks, there's going to be paper there's gonna be
bridge issues, which we know a lot about here in
the Kanaal Valley, specifically in Charleston. But if we know
what's going on, we seem to be a little bit
more say okay with it, but it puts a little

(35:01):
bit of ease. But when you're stranded, as somebody who's
traveled you know, the Western Indian Turnpike countless times in
my life, to be stranded in that area and you're
not near anything, you don't know what's going on. After
a while, unfortunately, you start writing your own stories. And
in this area, there was a time, and I talked

(35:23):
about this on the show before, there was a time
when when when you left Charleston, let's say, once you
get on the other side of Marmette, maybe near the
first toll booth or whatever, pretty much to you got
outside Beckley, you didn't have cell phone service. Well, that's
changed now. You know, I'm a Verizon customer. I'm sure
at and TSEs saying, wow, I have no issues at
all on the turnpike now. So there's no reason why

(35:44):
something could not have been put out on social media.
There was no reason why there couldn't have been some
sort of a text alert. I mean, had they communicated
with media outlets like ours or the TV stations or
whatever we send out texts, they too telling people what's
going on. And so again I applaud mister Smith and

(36:05):
those were saying this is where we messed up. And
I will say this, they owned it. We had them
on the air the day of I mean it happened
Thursday night slash Friday morning. We had mister Smith on
the air on that Friday and he talked about it,
and he said, this is a mistake of monumental proportions.
This is not going to happen again. And I really

(36:25):
really hope that he's correct on that now. They also
said that after two thousand and nine and people spent
twenty hours and a snowstorm on the turnpike. But let's
face it, the world has changed a lot as far
as communication goes since two thousand and nine, everybody iPhones
were a thing, but not everybody had them like they
do now. And social media certainly wasn't what it then

(36:47):
what it is now. It was around, but not what
it is now. So communication going for a readea story
for yourself over at wv metronews dot com. There was
a disturbing story out yesterday. An attorney here in Charleston
has been arrested on a Fugitive from Justice warrant after
being accused of exposing himself to a kid in Virginia

(37:08):
last week. James Barber, sixty five years old of Charleston,
arrested yesterday at his office downtown Charleston. He was charged
with exposing himself to a child under the age of fifteen,
the alleged events taking place in Chesterfield County in Virginia's
story posted this morning wvmetronews dot com. Marshall set to
officially name the new athletic director, Gerald Harrison, at a

(37:30):
press event today, and we'll get into that a little
bit further on Metro News midday programming. Note, the new
Marshall athletic director will be on talkline with the TJ
and Dave tomorrow at eleven o six and related to Marshall.
Do you want to tell you that one of the
biggest events of summer here in Charleston has now been set.
It's actually been set for some time. I just haven't

(37:51):
got around talking about it. And it's going to be
happening August twenty first at the Billina Flight School at
West Virginia International Yeger Airport. It's the annual Paint the
Capital City Green event. Last couple of years, this event
has completely sold out. I mean five to seven hundred
people heard, faithful and others. You gather up there at
the airport and it's one of the biggest events of

(38:12):
the summer to kind of get you ready for the
upcoming football season. A lot of excitement on college football,
not only in Huntington with Tony Gibson, but of course
with Rich Rod in Morgantown as well. But we're focusing
on Marshall at this event. Obviously, it's paith the Capital
City Green. We'll be telling you more about it, and
I will let you know that Steve Animal from ninety
eight to seven a month and wild, wonderful classic rock
and yours truly we will be seeing the event as

(38:34):
we've done for the last I guess three or four years.
It's a big old party getting you ready for the
football season. So if you get an opportunity, we'll give
you more information on tickets and so on and so forth.
It's sponsored by the Quarterback Club of Charleston with Marshall University.
Proceeds benefit the Big Green. I'm pretty confident that Coach
Gibson's going to be there, several players will be there.
The Voice of the thunder and Heard, Steve Cotton, will

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be there as well. It's August twenty first up at
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Crime is higher than ever. According to a texture, Well,
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not anything to brag about. I will argue that to death.
It is something to brag about if you're a police officer.
Now I'm not talking about individual or whatever, but I'm

(40:02):
saying it is something to brag about. Let's go to
the phones. Our good friend Jim is on theline. Jim,
welcome to the show.

Speaker 17 (40:10):
Take you, Dave, Sir Dave. In my career of nine
one one dispatching, I dispatched at the turnpike. We always
had at least two dispatchers on at any given time.
When the rains first started and the mudslides, the words

(40:33):
should have been out. Then they should have called maintenance
people out who were just like a snowstorm would be
on call. So there's a lot of things I wonder
and they might just may try to get to get

(40:54):
some of the dispatch takes from the turnpile when the
shutdown first started.

Speaker 3 (41:04):
All right, Jim, we appreciate your phone call. Thanks a lot.
It is twelve minutes away from ten o'clock. Do want
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fifty eight fifty eight Tony the Taylor Text three zero
four nine three five five zero zero Way. I heard
an interesting story on the morning news drive in this morning,
because it probably maybe interest me more than you oblige
me a little bit. The number of millionaires in America
is actually going up. Whereas millionaires used to be people

(45:43):
that were, you know, big time CEOs or Hollywood type people, athletes,
you know that kind of stuff, Now more and more
millionaires are people like us. One tenth of Americans are
now millionaires. With a thousand new people joining the ranks

(46:05):
of millionaires every year. The US has more millionaires than
any other country. Most of the money is in long
term investments, and most of the people, according to this piece,
live modestly. It's the people living in the simple suburban

(46:27):
type homes to think two three bedroom type homes as
opposed to place like you know, where the Beverly Hillbillies
woul live or something, in some sort of a mansion.
Bottom line is, according to economists, it's easier now than
it's ever been to be a millionaire. Now, this is

(46:50):
according to an article from the Associated Press. So I
don't want people thinking, well, this is just coming from
Forbes or something. Now, this is just coming from the
Associated Press. And you know the way the Associated Press operates.
It's just kind of a middle of the road collection
of stories from various places members of the Associated Press.

Speaker 8 (47:11):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
And here's the interesting thing to me, most of the
people that are millionaires are still working. So this myth
of somebody setting in this giant mansion with you know,
stacks of money in front of them, like Scrooge McDuck,
you know, with a giant cigar and h and a
bottle of something expensive. It's not it's not reality. You

(47:37):
can look this up for yourself from the Associated Press.
I'm gonna get into this a little bit more on
Metro News midday. I was talking to a financial person
earlier off the air and he's going to join me
on the show on Friday to talk about it. Uh And,
as I said, most of the people are still working.
And I think the reason I found this interesting is
being a marketing guy, is that we're constantly bombarded with

(48:00):
how bad it is out there and how impossible it
is to achieve wealth. And oh, by the way, before
somebody hits me with, well that may be true of
older people. No, the average people in this the fastest
growing sector of millionaires is forty an under. It's not

(48:20):
it's not about now. And that's not to say that,
you know, the whole idea behind getting old is that
you're supposed to send around to collect your money and
if you were able to save any which hopefully you
were able to. But it's forty and under. That's the
fastest growing class of millionaires. Those you know, if I
had to put an age on, I would guess maybe
thirty five to forty that's the fastest. That's the fastest

(48:41):
growing sector. And as I said, the majority of them
are still working upwards of sixty five to seventy hours
a week in many cases, but some aren't. In this article,
so quite a lengthy article, and you can just google
it in Associated you know, just google it. That's what
I did when I heard it on ABC News. Drive

(49:03):
it in this morning and the Associated Press to the
article and they do a couple of features on people
that still go on vacation, still live like they want.
They just they don't live in a multimillion dollar home.
They live in a modest home. They drive older vehicles,
they don't necessarily have the newest Lamborghini out there. But
I don't for some reason, I guess, just because this

(49:25):
is what we constantly hear from people whining about will
you do know what it's like today? Well, apparently somebody does.
I don't know what it's like to be a young
person today because I'll be fifty five in two months.
I'm entering the final demo, as they say, fifty five plus,
that's it for me. But apparently some people know what
they're doing. And this is not generational wealth, this is

(49:46):
first generation wealth. I don't know. I found it interesting.
Maybe you don't. TJ. Meadows is one of those people,
and he joins, kidding, I love this stuff. I'm kiddie,
I know you do. I love this a little bit, Earlily.
But so I don't know if you heard the story
you redistory or not, but you can go online and
look it up for yourself. I just I just thought

(50:07):
it was interesting because it's this whole woe is me
attitude about especially among some not all, but among some
young people, about how I'll never be able to do well.
Apparently somebody figured it out. Now you can.

Speaker 14 (50:20):
Eighty percent of wealthy people in this country are first
generation rich. They become rich for the first time investing early,
starting in a four oh one k particularly a roth
asset to build your wealth. Makes sense.

Speaker 3 (50:34):
A lot of that wealth that you're talking about. This
is nothing new.

Speaker 14 (50:36):
Thomas Stanley years ago wrote the Millionaire next Door. Dave
Ramsey talks about this. Just got a text and said
those exact words, millionaire next door. Yeah, there's look millionaires,
wealthy people. They don't wear big hats, but they got
a whole lot of cattle. They got a whole lot
of cattle. And they live below their means. They pay
themselves first. They live in a nice home, but not

(50:56):
an opulent home. They invest most. In my experience, passive
index funds are a huge.

Speaker 3 (51:04):
Way to build wealth. Okay to put that in English.

Speaker 14 (51:06):
So you're buying the entire stock market, and you're buying
it over a period of time.

Speaker 3 (51:11):
The market.

Speaker 14 (51:12):
Just if you bought the total stock market in the
last ten years, you're probably returning about fourteen fifteen percent.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
Annually on your money.

Speaker 14 (51:18):
Growing your wealth. Their income is a huge tool for them.
They make sure they pay themselves first, they save, they
build wealth over time. Interesting point if you go to
Ramsey's research and Stanley's research backs this up as well.
You know, you think doctor lawyer these kinds of things.
Teacher one of the most profound careers to become a millionaire.

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Teachers because they know how to budget right. Engineers in
the top doctor lawyer not even in the lawyer might
be in the top five doctors.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
Not well, they're probably still playing their college bills.

Speaker 14 (51:47):
Well and they're worried about keeping up with the Joneses right,
and real wealthy people. Richest man I've ever met, extreme wealth,
over a billion dollars had a T shirt with holes
in it.

Speaker 3 (51:57):
Yeah, there you go. I don't find an interesting all right, TJ. Quickly,
what's coming up on a big show today? Larry Pack
joins us at ten oh six.

Speaker 14 (52:03):
We'll talk all things politics, pia, taxes, et cetera, talk
Turnpike with Marty Gearharts. We're gonna talk pole attachments with
PSC chairman Charlotte Lane.

Speaker 3 (52:12):
That and a lot a lot more, all right, coming
up on this show, tomar Della Gate, Tristan Levin is here.
Joe Stevens on the taste of Nitro this weekend of
Joe Garin from The Dirty Birds. See you later today.
I met Youro news midday. Till then, have fun and
love somebody.

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Speaker 14 (52:49):
Engineers in the top doctor, lawyer not even in the
lawyer might be in the top five doctors not.

Speaker 3 (52:53):
Well, they're probably still playing their college bills.

Speaker 14 (52:55):
And they're worried about keeping up with the Joneses. Right
and now wealthy people, richest man. I've been met extreme
wealth over a billion dollars, had a T shirt with
holes in it.

Speaker 3 (53:04):
Yeah, there you go. I don't find it interesting, all right, TJ. Quickly,
what's coming up on the Big Show today? Larry Pack
joins us at ten oh six.

Speaker 14 (53:11):
We'll talk all things politics, pia, taxes, et cetera, talk
Turnpike with Marty Gearhart. We're gonna talk pole attachments with
PSC chairman Charlotte Lane. That and a lot a lot more, all.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
Right, coming up on this show, tomar Della Gate, Tristan
Levin is here, Joe Stevens on the taste of nitro
this weekend, and Joe Garin from The Dirty Birds. See
you later today. I met your news midday. Till then,
have fun and love somebody.

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