08/05/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Shawn Zuniga, Daniel Woods, Travis Bailes

Shawn Zuniga from the City of South Charleston on next week's Summerfest, Daniel Woods, the new guy at the radio ranch, and Travis Bailes of the Charleston Police Department on tonight's National Night Out.

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National Night Out across the country and here in the
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events in their community. So actually a few going on
in within city limits of Charleston. Travis Bales from the
Charleston Police Department is going to join us talk about
that a little bit. Later on tomorrow is our eighteenth
annual one oh seven three The Beat Backpack Attack, sponsored
by Selango Laud. We'll touch on that a little bit,
and also we're going to introduce you to the newest
of our radio family here in Charleston. Now he isn't

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new to the company, he's just transferring down here from
one of our other clusters of stations. His name is
Daniel Woods, and you've been hearing him on the morning
news doing sports. He will continue to do that, but
he'll be doing it from Charleston here at eleven eleven.
He's also going to be helping out with the news
and well, football season gets here before you know it.
We're gonna be covering West Virginia State football on our
sister station to Beat, and he's going to be taking

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care of that for us. Plus, we're going to get
to know him a little bit. And as I always
do anytime we have a new employee, even though Daniel's
not technically a new employe, he's new to us. He
gets to play ten questions. We're gonna get to know
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five zero zero A. The City of South Charleston gearing
up for Summerfest. It's one week from tomorrow. Around the
around the Mouth in South Charleston. Sean Zuna Get from
the City of South Charleston's here. What a talk about Summerfest.
But first I want to talk a little farmers market. Shawn,
Welcome to the show. Good morning, thanks for having me today,
Thank you for being here. Are things going with the

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farmers Market?

Speaker 5 (03:08):
It's going great. It's been a great turnout. The communities
really came out and supported it.

Speaker 6 (03:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
I mean, I've been with my wife and I have
gone several times. And if you've never if you've never
gone to it, it is it's an absolutely great thing
for the area. And I guess the one thing I was,
even though I'd had you on the show talking about it,
and Mayor Frank Mullins and talked about it too, I
guess I wasn't prepared for the first time I went,
how big it was and how how much space did
you cover there?

Speaker 5 (03:37):
Yeah, I mean it's it's it's actually I mean, for
we're a small market, but there's a lot, there's a
lot that we have there that we offer that you know,
it actually looks bigger than what it is. But you know, again,
it's been a it's been a great turnout, and you know,
we really just want to thank everyone for coming out
and supporting it.

Speaker 7 (03:55):
All.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
Right, so what do you got coming up to farmers Market?

Speaker 5 (03:57):
So this week we were celebrating ash Farmers Market Week,
and what that kind of is is it's a week
that you you want to help promote the agriculture and
the vital roles that markets have in the community and
the people behind it, which are the farmers. So what
we're doing for our market this week is we're gonna

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We're gonna do a spotlight on our social media for
all of our farmers during the week, and then on Saturday,
we're gonna have a National Farmers Market Week event with
a farm to table cookout which we are purchasing all
the products from our farmers there and cooking it out,
and we'll have a petting zoo, live apple butter demo,

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face painting, and tractor rides and inflatables.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
And describe to people where it is people that may
not know where the farmers Market is.

Speaker 8 (04:46):
So we are.

Speaker 5 (04:46):
We are located in South Charleston at four thousand and
six mccorkway Avenue Southwest, which is right behind the Wendy's.
It's on the old mccorkol Avenue where the old revef
end used to be.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, it's it's a it's a great facial and you're
gonna have a lot of good things going on here
this Saturday. Now, how long is it going to run?
I mean as far as I mean, how many more
weeks do you have?

Speaker 5 (05:06):
So we will run through the fall. We're gonna have
a fall in a Christmas market, okay, yea, So we
will be open probably up until around right before Christmas time.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Okay, I could see what that would be a huge
success Christmas, especially falling Christmas, I mean, because there's things
are kind of built around farmers markets, right, yep, Yeah,
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dot net. Because what you don't know can't hurt you,
all right. We'll get back to the farmer's market a
little bit later on, but we'll talk about summer fests.
How many years of summer Fest's been going on. It's
been happening a long time.

Speaker 8 (05:46):
Right.

Speaker 5 (05:47):
I asked this question yesterday because I always forget, and
this is our twenty second year.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Twenty second year right in Summer Fest, yep. And it
kicks off next Wednesday.

Speaker 5 (05:55):
Next Wednesday.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yeah, it runs through the weekend, Saturday through Saturday. So, well, doll,
do we have on the schedule this year?

Speaker 6 (06:01):
So it'll be, it'll be.

Speaker 5 (06:02):
It'll be four days of free family fund entertainment each
each evening. We'll have bands that come on at six
pm and eight pm. We'll have a free kid zone inflatables,
face painting, snow cones. We'll have plenty of food vendors
there as well, and dance contest. Friday night is our

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drone show at ten pm, and then Saturday morning from
eight to two is our car show, and then the
last night on Saturday night is our fireworks.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Okay, let's talk about the music. Do we have on
the schedule?

Speaker 8 (06:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (06:36):
So Wednesday we have Straight On which is which, which
is a tribute to Heart, and then we have the
exiles as well. Thursday we have the Detonators, and then
we have the Legacy Motel, and then Friday we have
Josh Pantry, and then we have Turn It Up, which
is a tribute to Skinnered, and then Saturday we have

(07:01):
Non Friction and Rick K road Trip.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah, and Non Friction. I've talked about that in the past.
I've actually worked a couple of events where I've m
seed them.

Speaker 6 (07:09):
They are.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
They're fantastic, yes. And Rick K, of course, you know
years was known as Rick K and the All Nighters
and he's kind of morphed into a different what what
a character and what a fantastic show?

Speaker 5 (07:20):
Yeah, he Rick K is very popular there at Summerfest
in South Ross and everyone seems to want him there
every year.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
He's fantastic fast. Of course you had me at Skinnered.
You know, that's my all time favorite group. And when
you said turned it when I read earlier that Turned
it Up is going to be there. They're one of
the premier Skinnered tribute bands. I mean, who doesn't like
you know, when you hear Sweet Home Alabama or or
you know, something like that, it'll be great. And one
of the things I like about the music is is
that Sean, You've got music of all different varieties. I mean,

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you've got a little motown, you got some oldies, you
got some and in Heart you know, they just played
at the Conlesey mcavench Center not long ago. Just I
mean they just kicked butt there and so that Heart
tribute's going to be good as well.

Speaker 5 (08:01):
Yeah, and then you know it is we have a
lot to offer during that week. There's gonna be something
for everybody.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yeah, and let's talk about some of the some of
the food vendors you got there.

Speaker 5 (08:12):
Yeah, so we will have I don't know exactly how
many we have, but we have a wide variety selection
with funnel fries, hot dogs, hamburgers, all this stuff, all
this theff barbecues. I mean, there's gonna be a little
bit of everything there, lemonade, drinks and and.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Of course you got to pay for the food obviously,
stuff like that. But if you want to bring the
family out just for entertainment.

Speaker 5 (08:35):
Yes, the entire kid zones free.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
It's free. The entire kid zone is free. And again
it starts next Wednesday and we'll run through Saturday evening
there at the Mound in South Charleston. And twenty how
many years you say twenty? This is twenty two, twenty
second year for Summer past. We're gonna be talking a
whole lot about I know our stations are going to
be involved in it as well, so we're definitely looking
forward to it. We had a text here about the
farmers market, okay, text said will the market be used

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for Christmas tree lots? If not, it should be.

Speaker 5 (09:02):
We will have Christmas trees during the Christmas market.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Yes, okay. And another is one of the group named
the Exiles or the legendary group Exile. It's the Exile Exiles. Yes,
that's with an S.

Speaker 6 (09:12):
Yes' with an s.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
Not the guys that did hits you all over, although
they've played around Charleston, you know many many times. You know,
this is the Exiles that we'll be playing there, not Exile.
But there's still a fantastic group either way. Now, if
you want to see the schedule of events, you can
go over to my Facebook page Nave Island Radio. I
actually took the graphic of your schedule of events and
you can follow along, I know in your guys social
media and also on the website of well you will

(09:35):
have all the information there. And let's talk about the
car show a little bit.

Speaker 5 (09:39):
Yeah, so last we had a great turnout. Yeah, I
believe two hundred and thirty two vehicles, which is the
biggest turnout we've had. So the registration will start at
seven am on that on next Saturday, and the car
show will start at eight eight am, run to two pm.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
All right, all right, Sean, Farmers Market, let's go back
to that just for a moment till people time you
open this Saturday with this whole farma this Saturday.

Speaker 5 (10:03):
We heard up at nine am, but the event starts
at ten am and I'll run to five pm.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
All right, we'll be there and we'll also see you
at some effects next week. Sean, appreciate you being there.

Speaker 6 (10:14):
Thanks for having me.

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We're getting ready for our Backpack Attack eighteenth annual. It's
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have you out of here by about six, and we
try to do it as orderly as we possibly can,
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We're going to talk to some folks from Charleston Police
Department about that coming up a little bit later on.
You've been hearing him on the air here for some time,

(14:12):
and now you're going to be seeing him around more
because he's made the move for Martinsburg to begin working
out of the palatial State here at eleven eleven. His
name is Daniel Woods, and he's been doing sports on
the morning news for a while and we've had him
on Metro News midday and other network productions within the company.
Now he's here and he joined us this morning in
the Jerry Construction studios. Good morning, sir, welcome aboard.

Speaker 6 (14:33):
Good morning, Thank you, very happy to be here.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
All right, give us the bio of Daniel Woods. Tell
us about you well.

Speaker 13 (14:37):
I'm born and raised West Virginia, Morgantown, spent the first
twenty three years of my life in Morgantown. I'm a
proud graduate of West Virginia University as well. So I
was one of those kids coming out of high school
where I thought I wanted to go anywhere but college
in West Virginia, and it worked out that I realized
around that time that not only was WVU going to

(14:59):
be my best it was the option that I wanted.

Speaker 6 (15:01):
So went to WVU.

Speaker 13 (15:03):
Spent the first close to twenty three years of my
life in Morgantown. Then was in the sports television game
for a little bit in the Clarksburg market, did that
for about a year and a half, worked with the
company with WVRC Media part time. When I was in college,
did a year and a half in the TV game. Decided,

(15:23):
you know what, that radio stuff that I did in
college was a lot more fun. So an opportunity came
up with Luke Wiggs, who some folks may have heard
across the network as well, who is a very good
friend of mine from college, with our Martinsburg office to
go out there be part of their news and sports product,
and that's what I've been doing for a little bit
over a year and a half now. Opportunity came around

(15:46):
with the Morning News to be the sports update anchor
there and have been doing that remotely for Martinsburg for
a little while now and have now fully vested myself
in this Charleston office. Today is my first day act
in the building. So very excited to be here and
very excited to get started with that as well as
the West Virginia State University football and basketball product we're

(16:08):
going to be bringing to one of seven three the
Beat too.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yeah, we'll talk about that a little bit later on.
What was it that made you want to get in
this crazy business to begin with? Because it's a special
kind of crazy that wants to do this, you know,
you realize that, right.

Speaker 13 (16:19):
Absolutely, And I like to think that I'm that kind
of crazy, and the poster child for that kind of crazy,
I think, is the person that made me want to
do this. I grew up both my parents are teachers,
so I grew up having to go to school earlier
than everybody else. And I would be riding to school
in the car with my mom in Morgantown and would
flip WVQ on and it was the Eric and Kevin

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Show every morning and Eric Maguire. It just seemed like
had fun going to work every day, and it didn't
seem like a job for that guy. And I thought,
you know, from the time I was sex seven years old,
that seems pretty fun.

Speaker 6 (16:55):
Maybe I'd like to do that.

Speaker 13 (16:57):
And then I've been a massive sports in my entire life.
I played just about anything you could think of growing up,
and then when I got to high school, was playing
high school basketball. Tore my ACL not once, but twice
during thigh school overachiever, I try, I try my best,
tour my ACL twice in about two and a half years,

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and in the meantime became the PA announcer for my
high school's soccer team, and that kind of unlocked something
with the radio love for radio that I had as
a kid, and joined the college radio station at WVU,
fell in love with it even more there and It's
what I wanted to do since.

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Doctor to Daniel Woods, who is a the newest member
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ask you, since you're a sports guy. We know you're
a Mountaineer fan, all right, who are your sports teams?

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Because we're very competitive around here about our respective sports team.
So who are your teams other than WVU.

Speaker 13 (18:05):
Well, it starts first and foremost, unfortunately, and I've taken
the beating for this over the years with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
It starts with with my with my dad, who grew
up on the Kingwood Pike outside of Morgantown, uh, listening
to Bob Prince on the radio with his grandfather, and
then that was passed down to me. And I've gotten
three playoff appearances in my lifetime. But we we we

(18:25):
deal with that, we you and weekly because we think
Pirates unit.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
I'm trying to think of as any other Pirates fans
in the building. I don't think that there is. But
all right, so we got the Pirates down, who will right?

Speaker 13 (18:37):
And then I know that the combined fandom of of
WVU and and Pittsburgh sports is a little bit controversial
for some people, but it's it is just a proximity
thing to the city of Pittsburgh Steelers fan in general.

Speaker 6 (18:50):
Uh.

Speaker 13 (18:51):
And then growing up as a the folks at home
can't see, you know. Radio is a visual medium, as
we all know. But I'm not the smallest guy in
the room, and I was more of a post player
during my basketball days. And as I was growing up,
became a huge fan of Karl Anthony Towns, so through
that became a Minnesota Timberwolves fan. So, not having an

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NBA team in the market in the Pittsburgh or really
even anywhere generally close area around Morgantown, became a Minnesota
Timberwolves fan because of that. So that's the outlier. But
other than that, it's WVU and Pittsburgh teams that I
grew up rooting for, and the Penguins too.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yeah, for the most part, Okay, all right, I gotta
throw that in because I've just become a hockey fan
of the last couple of years, and I'm a pans
gap sore. You go, and now we're going to be
hearing you calling the action of West Virginia State football
on the beat this season. Talk about how excited you
are for that and the preparation to get ready to
do these games.

Speaker 13 (19:44):
I'm really fired up for it. We had a really
strong Division two product in our Martinsburg office with Shepherd
University that Luke Wiggs, who I mentioned before, is kind
of the head guy on and I was able to
be a part of that. And frankly, grow up in
West Virginia. You know there's WVU, there's Marshall. But as

(20:05):
someone who's just a sports fanatic, I have a really
strong appreciation for Division two athletics and there's really good
Division two athletes all over West Virginia. So getting ready
for West Virginia State, I think it's an exciting thing
to be able to bring to the table just because
it is a program that it seems to me, at
the very least with John Pennington at the Helm is

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doing a lot of the right things and is going
to a lot of the right places in The Mountain
East Conference is such a fun competitive league from top
to bottom every year that I'm really excited than basketball season.
We don't have to get all the way into that,
but I have a ton of respect for Brian por
Cover in basketball in the state of West Virginia as well.
So I think getting ready for this football season obviously,

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if I'm correct, got practices starting this week for the Yellowjackets.
I want to get out there talk to as many
people as possible. Know there's a new athletic director in
place as well that I need to meet with, and
I've got some personal connections to coach Pennington as well
that I want to get out there and shake his
hand and put a name to a face. But I'm
just really excited to hit the ground running and not

(21:09):
only serve as the voice for for the Yellow Jackets,
but get out there all over the state, all over
the NEC and all over Division two football.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
Well, I want to go ahead and make a programming
note right now is you know every Friday I have
Chris Lawrence and Tom Bragg on the show to talk
about whatever high school games. So let's go ahead and
plan on you coming on on Friday mornings to talk
about not only West Virginia State, but all the other
schools and the Mountain East as well.

Speaker 6 (21:32):
Sounds sounds great.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
As long as your schedule allows, because we're going to
keep you pretty busy right here because you're doing sports news,
you know whatever. I think so, and you're gonna be
here for the backpack attack tomorrow. I believe that's what
you haven't lived. You seen the backpack attack. It will
be a lot of fun.

Speaker 13 (21:45):
All I know is I walked in this morning and
and the Big Boss said, that's that space you parked
in this morning.

Speaker 6 (21:50):
Yeah, you can't park that tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yeah, yeah, well yeah, that's uh. There'll be an email
from Tracy out front to go around everybody to her
mind us we're not allowed to park in the parking
lot tomorrow. We'll to park in the next lot over
because this parking lot is going to be filled with
vans and tents and so on and so forth and
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this has become a tradition now with all the new
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Speaker 6 (22:30):
You got that?

Speaker 9 (22:30):
Yes?

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You know Uncle Fred went up to Morgantown for a
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how could you do that? How can you do that
to Fred of all people? All right, so this is
a tradition we do. So I said, you're not really new,
you're just new the building. We're going to play ten questions,
Doniel Woods. That's right. Are are you ready?

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I'm ready?

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Okay now, And for our listeners at home, please don't
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as always, no wageram all right ready to go.

Speaker 6 (23:05):
Let's do it, all right?

Speaker 3 (23:06):
Chocolate or vanilla chocolate Winter Spring summer or fall summer.
Your favorite elementary school teacher.

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Oh, that's I gotta, I gotta, I gotta think back
on this one. My mom was my elementary school fizzed teacher.
So I feel like I might. I feel like I
might get in trouble if I don't say missus Woods.

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All right, especially if she's listening on the app right now.

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There's a decent chance she is. That's the thing, all right.

Speaker 13 (23:29):
The most beautiful place you've ever visited, Isle of Palm,
South Carolina.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
All right, Betty or Wilma.

Speaker 13 (23:37):
Oh that's that's a question that has never crossed my mind. Yeah,
I'm gonna say Wilma.

Speaker 6 (23:42):
Okay.

Speaker 14 (23:43):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
The one musical act you will never get tired of
and could listen to over and over and over again.

Speaker 6 (23:50):
The Beatles?

Speaker 3 (23:51):
Okay, You and Ron Hughes will get along greater. Okay,
Colonel Ron? What goes on your burger? Let us on
your pickle? Ketch it mustard? All right? Your sports hero
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All time favorite movie? Oh, brother w Art though, all right,
you've passed.

Speaker 6 (24:18):
That's it.

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I'm I'm glad that I've I got at least at
least a seven out of ten.

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You passing, Greg, you did.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
Fine, You did fine. We'll be listening for you now.
So primarily you're gonna be on the morning news as
you have been for some time. But we're also gonna
hear you on the news, and we're gonna hear you
on West Virginia State football and basketball.

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That's a plan, unless unless somebody decides to decides to
make a change, unless I make the wrong people upset.

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I've been here for five years. Okay, if you let them,
if you ever utter the phrase, is there anything I
can do to help, You'll be helping. Okay, Just so
you know, we'll be loading vans. We're gonna be live
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So bottom line is, Daniel, if you tell people I'm
willing to help, they'll put you to work, right, That's
what we do here.

Speaker 6 (25:20):
Well, I'm willing. I'm willing to get to work. I
will say.

Speaker 13 (25:24):
The early the early days for the morning news may
preclude me from, I guess, afternoon and evening activities.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
But normally what time you normally get up.

Speaker 6 (25:32):
Let's see when.

Speaker 13 (25:34):
I was when I was doing the morning news for Martinsburg,
four thirty was usually the time the alarm was set.
I would imagine getting settled here. It's going to be
a little earlier for the next few weeks.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
Well, I mean, Jenkins and Lawrence hit the building at
about three thirty or four in the building, I.

Speaker 13 (25:48):
Was gonna say, I'm I'm by all. I'm not not
not complaining at all compared to those guys, that's for sure.

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All right, Daniel, in all seriousness, pleasure to have you here.
We've worked well together on the on Metro news midday
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I did lose count well, actually there were ten questions there,
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I've started doing this years ago where I bring people
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Aaron Parker young, Aaron Parker, fresh out of college, and
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He's a little nervous anyway, and Jeff Jenkins comes running
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him out of the way because we just learned on
that particular day that Jerry West had died and it
was breaking news. So the news guy got bumped for
breaking news on that particular day. Let me see here.
I got some text too, get to you here in
a moment. But I do want to talk a little
bit about National Night Out. Travis Bales from the Charleston
Police Department Shore, Welcome to the show, sir. How are

(29:57):
you any thanks for favous. I'm not going to play
the ten question game with you because you have a
badge and a gun. Okay, that's fine, it's fair enough,
all right, So let's talk about the event overall tonight,
National Night Out. I mean this is something that again
it's national, that's the name National Night Out, and police
departments across the country, several within West Virginia too. We
interviewed some folks on Metro News Midday yesterday having one

(30:18):
up in the Eastern Panhandle. It's just a way for
the police departments to interact with the communities, talk about them.

Speaker 7 (30:25):
Yeah, it's a great way for not only the police department,
but the neighborhoods to come together, get to know their neighbors,
get to know us. It's all about unity and you know,
show them what can happen when people who live in
the same areas know each other.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
So what what exactly is going to go on? What
time does everything get underway tonight?

Speaker 7 (30:40):
And there's going to start about six until around eight o'clock.
We only have events at Orchard Manor, Carol Terrace, South
Park Village, and the nine hundred block at sixth Street
planned Carol excuse me, Orchard Manor.

Speaker 9 (30:53):
There.

Speaker 7 (30:53):
We're going to have assistance with the FBI and the
dj They're going to be there offering IDs for children
if they want them. We're gonna have.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
Food for They explain that IDs for kids.

Speaker 7 (31:03):
Why why would kid want an ID for the parents
to have in cases, you know, maybe their kid goes missing.
It'd be an easy way to streamline that information to
the law enforcement.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
Okay, and what else is going on there?

Speaker 7 (31:13):
Free food, We're gonna have hot dogs, We're gonna have
box lunches from sheets provided. And there's gonna be bounce houses,
games from Parks and rec and police cars there if
kids want to check them out, and just hanging out.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
And again, sheets is a big part of this thing nationwide,
I think, I mean, I think this is kind of
their one of their initiatives as well. So the big
question is who's growing up the hot dogs.

Speaker 7 (31:37):
It'll be a joint effort between the Aspire Achievement Project
and the Charleston Police Department of Parks and Rec. We're
gonna all hop on a grill.

Speaker 3 (31:43):
And again, this is a great opportunity for It's not
only because and I guess, I guess Officer I didn't
phrase this correctly when I was talking about the importance
of the police department in this. It's not just that,
because it's a lot of times this is about the
community getting to know each other. Because you know, we
live in a society in West Virginia is the friendliest
place on earth. We all know that, but sometimes people

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just don't as my dad used to say in the church,
they don't fellowship one with the other as much as
they as they used to. People even in West Virginia
can live on the same street or in the same
neighborhood with somebody you know for ten years and never
speak to them, and it's a great opportunity for the
neighbors to get to know each other as well.

Speaker 7 (32:23):
Yeah, that's one hundred percent correct. Unfortunately, there are so
many neighborhoods where people don't know their neighbors. And when
you know the neighbors and you know the police officers,
crime goes down. That's been proven.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
And talk about the importance of the police officers being
in the community when there's good stuff going on, because
i mean, let's face it, in certain areas all over
the country, the only time they see somebody that looks
like you is if something's gone wrong.

Speaker 7 (32:50):
Yeah, we want people to know that they don't just
need to see us when they call nine one one.
We're here for them anytime they need us. And we're
not just badges. We're people were you know coach is,
we're you know, fathers and mothers, and we're just people
that are out here trying to help and trying to
do the right thing.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
Talk about some of your experiences in the past at
these at events similar to this, some some success door.
Not to mention the kid's name or anything, but just
talk about some of the things that you've seen at
these events over the years.

Speaker 7 (33:16):
The kids coming out and hanging out with us, little kids,
they love us, and we want to keep that going
as long.

Speaker 8 (33:22):
As we can.

Speaker 7 (33:23):
As kids get older, they might get a little, you know,
disgruntled towards us, but we want to we want to
break that wall and let them know that, you know,
we're not.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
Anything but here to help them well.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
And I think sometimes we talked about that with a
police officer yesterday. Actually it was the sheriff of Jefferson County.
We had on Metro News midday yesterday. We talked about
that with him, that sometimes parents trying to get the
kids to calm down to look. You know, my parents
did the same thing, saying I'm going to call the
police on you if you if you don't behave, you
don't do your homework, you don't clean up whatever, We're

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going to call the police.

Speaker 9 (33:56):
Oney.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
They don't really mean anything bad by it, but it
can put some negative vibes out there.

Speaker 7 (34:01):
It can you know, parents like to throw that out there.
They see its ound in public, say I'm gonna get
that guy to arriscue if you don't start behaving, We're
not going to do that. If anything, we're gonna give
them a stick or badge and you know, send him underway.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Yeah, you know it's kid. We're talking about Travis Beales
from the Charleston Police Department. National Night Out is going
on throughout the city of Charleston to night also, it's
going on I think what I think Dunbar was one
of the other communities that's going to be doing this,
but it's going on all all around America. And again
it's an opportunity to for for residents of the communities
to say thank you to you folks. I know that's

(34:35):
not why you're doing it, but unfortunately, you know, you
guys have had a bad rap the last couple of years.
Not Charleston police, I mean police in general. I mean
the national narrative. We've all seen it. It's hard to
find people to want to come to be police officers
because of the things that you you have to put
up with. So if you're somebody that's living in the community.

(34:56):
It would be a great opportunity, just like you would
with a veteran, to go up and shake their hands,
say we appreciate what you do.

Speaker 7 (35:01):
Yeah, yeah, we appreciate that very much. We do know
that the silent majority are the ones that do appreciate
us and love the work we do. And we're always
happy to meet folks that want to, you know, tell
us how you know what's going on in their community
or what we can do to help them, or just
show appreciation.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
And when it comes to policing, especially in larger areas
well even smaller areas, I guess for that matter, it's
you guys depend so much on the community. I mean,
there's something going on, you know, the community is going
to let you know about it. Yeah, And talk about
that relationship with the community and how important it is

(35:40):
to do in policing right.

Speaker 7 (35:42):
Absolutely, we can't do our jobs without the community telling
us what to do. We can't be on every street
corner twenty four to seven, So we need the community
to trust us that we're going to do our job.
If they call us, and that's what this event is about,
they can get to know us on a more personal
level and know that we're just not a police guard
that's going to show up and they call us. We're
real people that want to help with the real problems

(36:04):
that they may be having because we live here too.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
What was it about this that made you want to
do this to be a police officer? What was it
that was that something that from an early age you
wanted to do or something maybe later in life you said, well,
I kind of fell into this job as many people do.
What was it for you that made you want to
do this?

Speaker 7 (36:20):
Well, growing up, like a lot of people, I followed
in my father's footsteps. He was a deputy for thirty years, okay,
and you know, but other than that, you get to
get out here and the old cliche, it's a front
road seat to the greatest show in the world. It's
something different every day and you can truly help people.
You're not going to change the world, but you can
change somebody's world. You can get back that weed eater

(36:42):
that was stolen from the gram all up the street
and really make her a day.

Speaker 6 (36:46):
And that's that's what it's all about.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
Yeah, And where we're talking to it with the officer
Travis Bales of the City of Charleston Police Department about
the national Night Out event that's going to be going
on here in this area, but it's also going on
across the country as well, and it's it is I
on us a little bit. We're not going to solve
this here today, but it's difficult to get people to
want to do what you guys and gals do for

(37:07):
a living. I know, anytime I have police office, police
departments on, I have, you know, the sheriff's on whatever,
they always say, we need people, we need people. What
would you say to somebody that is considering, maybe a
young younger person entering adulthood right now, interthinking, well, I
may want to become a police officer. What would be

(37:28):
your selling point to them?

Speaker 7 (37:30):
Well, I can't speak for everywhere in the United States,
but I can say here in Charleston, we are one
of the best agencies around. We have great support, not
just with the administration but with the community. We are
able to get out here and do our jobs and
be police officers and try to make a difference. You know,
nationwide there has been issues with recruiting, but we are

(37:51):
getting better here. Maybe you saw yesterday we just hired five.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
More Yeah, Actually, I had to Mayor on the show
yesterday and she had to cut her interview a little
bit short because she was going to go and swear
in five new police officers.

Speaker 7 (38:02):
Yeah, and we gave an hiring test last weekend and
we've got a pretty nice list going. So I'm optimistic
about that and we'll hopefully get a few more by
the end of the year. No say, but you still
need more, right, We always need more because there's always
retirements and other means of attrition.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
All right, Hey, officer, I appreciate you being here. Give
us the details again about National Night Out of what
specifically where you're going to be and what's going to
be going on tonight.

Speaker 7 (38:27):
All right, National Night Out. It's gonna be six to
eight pm tonight. We're gonna have events at Orchard Manor,
carol Terrace, South Park Village, and the nine hundred block.

Speaker 5 (38:35):
At six Street.

Speaker 7 (38:36):
There's going to be food at all those locations and
activities for the kids. There'll probably be the biggest events
going on at Orchard Manor. But more than welcome to
stop by at anyone and see us and get some
up deep.

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Speaker 3 (42:39):
And I remember this well, Thank you so much for
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I think it maybe was PBS that did a series.
It was called Scared Straight. And they brought these kids
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And when I say they talk to them, they weren't,
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Kind of a thing. And uh, I I don't know
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(43:25):
tell you, uh that the name Scared Straight was was
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Speaker 10 (43:36):
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Speaker 3 (43:36):
You know that that uh that you're going to hurt
their feelings or something like that. Well, you know what,
that's probably not a bad thing to hurt their hurt
their feelings because at some point, kids are gonna have
to learn, uh that life's not fair. And if you
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(43:59):
just tell them straight up. You're gonna get screwed over
sometimes and sometimes you're gonna get advantages that you shouldn't get.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
So so there you go.

Speaker 3 (44:08):
But I would be all for bringing programs like that back.
I don't know what the like I said, I don't
know what the success rate is. I have a hard
time believing that you could do that today. But we
do have a general lack of respect. We have a
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to blame to blame just kids, because we have a

(44:32):
lack of respect in our society all around, and there
are plenty of adults that could learn that as well.
Coming up on the show tomorrow, we're gonna have a
whole boatload of people here talking about the next ribbon cutting,
the next project out of the Shawnee Sports Complex, uh
some of their expansion. They got a business after hours
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(44:52):
cutting held, uh so in studio tomorrow. Kenawh County Commission
President Ben Selango, Katie Arthur, who is executive director of
the Shawnee Sports Complex, Jen Wood from ZMM Architects and Engineers,
and Mara Boggs of the Charleston Area Alliance. They're all
going to be in studio tomorrow. So let's see that's
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(45:14):
and we're gonna put somebody in there think share a
mike though, Well we'll make Selango stand. But yeah, they're
all going to be on the show tomorrow. Now later
today Metro News Midday with thirteen News and Tonight Live
anchor Amanda Baron and me. The show is still a
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School yesterday in Wayne County. He was a Tug Valley
High School. To Mingo County, he was at GW. He's
really really making the round. So high school football season
is coming up, and of course we're going to have
our Game of the Week and also Herbert Hoover Football
this fall as well. But anyway, Jim Workman's going to
join us to talk about some preseason polls as it
comes to high school sports. He'll be joining Amanda and

(46:16):
me coming up from noon to three on this another
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Visits Selango Law dot com. Texas Scared Straight didn't work
in West Virginia considering a large part of gen X
and millennials were taken out by opioids. That's that's not wrong.
I mean it's and here's the thing. And I've said

(46:37):
this on the show before, and I don't want to
come across with somebody who looks like, you know, I'm
always complaining about these young kids today or whatever, But
we put a lot of we give a lot of
grief to the young people, you know, but who raised
the young people? It was my generation. I mean, I'll
be fifty five years old next month, so I didn't

(46:58):
have kids. But if my wife and I will have
had kids, our kids would have been of that age
right now. So before you go blaming these kids today,
somebody had to raise him. It was gen X that
raised them to be the way they are, you know,
So I get it. I get it. Someone called, according

(47:20):
to producer Ryan, wanted to know why our representatives aren't
holding town halls. We talked about this on the show yesterday.
I can't answer that, you know, say what you want
about Bernie Sanders. I am certainly one hundred percent not
a fan of Bernie Sanders at all. But he does

(47:42):
get out to the people, I'll say that. And he
is going to Mingo County, West Virginia later this week,
which I don't think is a very smart move. I'm
not saying anything bad is going to happen or anything
like that, but I know there's gonna be some good
old boys with jacked up pickup trucks and the Trump signs.
I've already seen them on line. We're headed to We're
head to Leonore in Mingo County. Bernie's going to be

(48:02):
in Leonore, He's going to be in Wheeling, He's going
to be in Charleston, and there's going to be people
showing up with MAGA hats and whatever.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
I give him credit.

Speaker 3 (48:09):
I don't like the guy and nothing is personally. I
just don't like his policies, but he gets out and
men to people, and there's a lot of people, a
lot of elected officials that don't do that. I mean,
somebody brought up yesterday the fact that Mayor Goodwin comes
in the studio once a month and takes phone calls

(48:30):
and it's open line, and a lot of our elected
officials simply will not do that. They we ask would
you like to take phone calls?

Speaker 9 (48:38):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (48:38):
No, no, no, And that's okay if they don't want
to do it, but you know she does. I will
say that any Texas jerry mandering updates. Last I heard,
I guess the Democrats in Texas walked out because they
didn't want to have this vote on this whole jerryman

(49:00):
redistricting thing, and so they all went to Illinois's and
the governor up there. I think it's giving them, like
made it like a sanctuary city or something for the
Democrats up there. You know, I don't know what's gonna happen.
There's talk that, you know, they may be arrested, but
then you get into a whole jurisdiction kind of thing.
I mean, can Texas rangers or whatever go into Illinois
and arrest somebody I don't know tex says JFC, And

(49:25):
I know what JFC stands for. Are you all so
dense to think that scared straight works? What evidence do
you have?

Speaker 2 (49:32):
None?

Speaker 3 (49:33):
But your feelings tell you at work, brilliant strategy, use
evidence based approaches if you want real results, says a textra.
What do you not like about Bernie Sanders, says the Texter. Yes,
good for Amy for showing up and answering all questions.
How much time you got on Bernie Sanders. Because I'm
a capitalist. That's why I don't like Bernie Sanders. Because

(49:53):
I'm a capitalist. I'm not against him personally. I mean,
I guess he's an alright guy for one hundred and
eighty eight year old. But why would I like Bernie Sanders?
I'm a capitalist?

Speaker 2 (50:04):
TJ.

Speaker 3 (50:04):
Meadows hey Man also.

Speaker 18 (50:07):
A capitalist as a good Socialism is great for about
all thirty minutes or so.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
Until you run out of other people's money. Yes, as Margaret,
that's you said me exactly, all right, exactly going on
with you?

Speaker 18 (50:18):
Well, you know I'm hanging out, Okay, I'm hanging out,
enjoying the last little bit of summer. School starts back
next week. We were talking on our planning call this morning.
I'm trying to get my ducks in a row for that,
you know, dropping off kiddies. And I know you love
that in the Greater tayste Metroplex, all the drop offs.
You're a big fan of that.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
Don't get me started, don't get me started. Don't get
me started time year. Part of the fun of being
a kid is being bullied on the school bus. Okay,
it builds a character as long as it doesn't go,
as long as it doesn't get out of hand. And
don't get me started on these entitled kids and these
entitled parents that take their kid. I'm not talking about
every parent. Okay, there are certain exceptions. I get that,

(50:59):
but you can't tell me that every one of those
those kids that that I encounter at as I'm trying
to make my way and and please don't tell me.
As the texture said last year, when I went off
on a big rant about this, they were like, they said, well,
just leave earlier. Why should I have to leave early?
Put your kids on damn bus. That's that's why we're
paying them. That's why we're paying The bus is a

(51:20):
run at thirty about thirty percent capacity.

Speaker 18 (51:23):
Do you ever see the part of the Napoleon Dynamite
where he throws the wrestler figure or whatever out the
window and it drags along.

Speaker 6 (51:28):
We had a kid that did that on the you know,
child of the eighties.

Speaker 3 (51:32):
I walked to school for crying out loud. Yeah, we
looked to school. Our bus stop was about half a
mile walk. I guess it probably wasn't that far, but
we did have kids in our community that did walk
at least two miles.

Speaker 18 (51:47):
I will say this though, the way people text and drive,
I wouldn't let my kid walk on the side, walk
along the road. I mean, because it's how many. You
see it all the time. I see it all the time.
It's crazy.

Speaker 3 (51:57):
Bernie's not against making money, says the texture. Dude made
tens of millions of dollars writing books. He's against consolidating
wealth to a few people while American starve and die,
like a healthcare?

Speaker 6 (52:05):
How much wealth?

Speaker 3 (52:06):
Why should Bernie be the arbiter of how much money?

Speaker 6 (52:10):
Is too much money?

Speaker 3 (52:10):
Answer me that exactly. There is no such thing as
too much money socialists. Yeah, all right, all right, I
set the stages for you, buddy. What else you got
on the show today?

Speaker 2 (52:19):
So Brad Mack is in.

Speaker 3 (52:20):
He's going to talk about that Snap waiver that we
got yesterday. We'll also talk about green power.

Speaker 18 (52:25):
We're going to get into snap as well with the
West Virginia Oil Marketer and Groceries Association.

Speaker 3 (52:30):
How will affect these retailers.

Speaker 18 (52:32):
We'll talk about jerry mandring in Texas late US there,
that and w hole much more.

Speaker 3 (52:36):
All right, I'll be along with Metro News midday with
thirteen News in TONIGHTLVE anchor Amanda Baron and me coming
up at noon today. We'll see you then I'll be
back on the show tomorrow. Till next time, have fun.
I Love Somebody, y Ay w C H S A M.

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