11/04/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Delford Chafin, Steve Bishop

Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Delford Chafin on West Virginia International Film Festival, and Steve Bishop on his 45th anniversary here.

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of the show. The West Virginia International Film Festival is
coming up. I'm going to talk to Delford Chaffin about that.
Plus we're celebrating a bit of a milestone here today.
Steve Bishop of v one hundred is celebrating his forty
fifth and aniversary of working with this company. Now, somebody myself,

(02:04):
I've been in radio a total of thirty seven years.
I've only been here for about five and a half years.
You don't realize what an incredible accomplishment that is in
the world of radio or television for somebody to be
in one place for that long. So we got a
little celebration going on. The mayor stop buying, gave mister
Bishop key to the city. Or in course he, as
everybody always does, ask what does the key go to?

(02:26):
So I don't think they've told him that, but we're
going to bring him in the studio talk about his
career a little bit later on. Some other folks are
going to stop to celebrate mister Bishop as well. And
speaking of celebration, today is my producer, Ryan Nicholson's birthday,
So how about a big shout out to Ryan Nicholson,
our producer as well. Bigley Pickli Wiggly Hotline three zero
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Without further ado, though, I want to welcome into the
show the US Senator from West Virginia, shellymore Capito. Good morning, Senator,
and welcome to the show.

Speaker 5 (02:59):
Good morning you are you're on a roll here, and
I can I just say something about Steve Bishop because.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Absolutely I have.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
Obviously, when I began, which was a long time ago,
Steve was on Steve and Jenny, and I was so
nervous to go down to to the studio to be
interviewed by them or to talk with them. And back
then you brought donuts. He would he would say, bring
the donuts down. He doesn't do that anymore because now
I see him out at all the all the walks

(03:29):
and all the runs, and he's all healthy, and I'm like,
where are the donuts, Senator?

Speaker 3 (03:34):
He still does it. Don't get me, I mean, don't
let him fool you. He still does. As a matter
of fact, they always plan these celebrations when I'm on
the air, every time without fail, this, Oh we're all
going to meet at nine o'clock. Oh great, Well, I'm
kind of tied up at nine o'clock. But I can
tell you that in the in the green room and
in our conference room right now where the Steve Bishop

(03:55):
celebrations going on, that I'm missing.

Speaker 6 (03:57):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
There are pastries from Spring Help Pastry, and there are
also some Chick fil A breakfast biscuits as well, and
I'm missing all of it. When I go back in,
there'll be a couple of crumbs here there. I hope
there's some donuts, just for comfort, Just for comfort, all right.
I want to switch gears here, of course, Williams on
government shutdown, but I want to I want to get

(04:18):
serious here for a moment. Of course, the world is
mourning the death of Dick Cheney today, and I thought
I would give you an opportunity to weigh in on
the passing of Dick Cheney.

Speaker 5 (04:25):
Well, obviously, my first year in the Congress was when
Dick Cheney was first elected as vice president. He had
a storied history as being Secretary of Defense and chief
of staff to a president at a very young age.
He was a man of few words. He didn't really
talk a lot. He came to Charleston several times to
campaign for me. It was awesome, and so we had

(04:47):
a great relationship. He cared a lot about the people
of West Virginia, understood West Virginia being from a smaller
state like Wyoming, and I think he was a pivotal
person at a really difficult time after those nine to
eleven attacks, and so our relationship. He knew my dad
as well, having been in the house around the same time,

(05:10):
and so I know that he and his I know
that his family had struggles. I think he had his
first heart attack when he was in his mid thirties.
So he was a remarkable individual. But we had that
little smirky smile. So he had a good sense of humor.
But he was just a quiet man, but very patriotic
and we will miss him.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
And I have done some reading and watched some biographies
about Dick Cheney, and just what you said there, Senator,
that's one of the things people said about him that
knew in best was he was quiet, but he had
a great sense of humor. And we've all known people
like that in our life. When you look at him
at a fart, you said, well, how's this person funny?
But once you get to know them, they really are.
And that's a couple of articles. And as I said,

(05:52):
biographies i'd seen about Dick Cheney, they said he had
a fantastic sense of humor, a little bit quiet, so
you got to know him, right.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
And I think he was a steady hand during an
unsteady time for our nation. And I know there's controversies
as to what the policies that he helped formulate when
President Bush, but you know, we have to go back
to that time when we saw three thousand people killed
in towers in New York. I mean, I don't think
we ever thought something like that could ever happen. And

(06:22):
a strong a man such as Dick Cheney, with a
strong sense of core and sense of love of country,
I think was a pivotal time for us. And he
was also willing to take sort of the slings and
arrows of politics. You know, it's a rough business and
sometimes people fold under the pressure, but he never did.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Talking with US Senator Shelley Moore Capito in the Life
of Dick Cheney, Let's move on to some other things.
I appreciate those kind words, I really do. It's now
I think the tide for the longest shutdown, governmental shutdown,
partial shutdown, whatever you want to call it in US history,
is that right.

Speaker 5 (06:58):
It is, and it's certainly not a milestone to be
proud of. It is miserable for everybody and becoming very
personally miserable to a lot of West Virginians, whether it's
food or other services contracts, et cetera, or people that
are working for the government or tsa. Folks, it's really
really rough and hopefully this will this will end this week.

(07:22):
There are some there's some blue sky here, but not
enough right now for me to make that prediction. Unfortunately.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Well, and we know, you know, the last week, last Friday,
I guess it was a couple of judges came out
and said that they had to be they had that
the Snap benefits had to be the money had to
go into it. And we know, as you said, there
is some blue sky, if you will, but it's going
to be slow coming to get these people caught up
because it's not a Okay, we're good, let's start, you know,

(07:52):
loading the cards. That's not the way that this thing works.
And we're talking about center, we're talking about somewhere like
sixteen percent, as you said, millions of West virgin Onions
that didn't have their Snap cards loaded on Saturday.

Speaker 7 (08:04):
I know.

Speaker 5 (08:04):
And I actually heard a story yesterday of a woman
who was shopping in a Walmart and her cart was
full and when she got to the register, you know,
the cashier I had to say, you don't have any
money on your card, and she just left in tears,
had to leave the basket and everything. She didn't have
enough money. And I'm sure that was happening everywhere. It's
a disservice to everybody. Some states are able to pay.

(08:26):
I know the governor and others have really tried to
fill the gap here, and I'm very pleased about that.
But there shouldn't be a gap to fill. I mean,
we've had this vote, we're going to have it again
fourteen times to open the government. This could have been
avoided thirty five, thirty whatever day we're on, thirty five
or thirty six days days ago while we negotiated other

(08:46):
things like healthcare and other things. But the politics have
gotten in the way, unfortunately, and now we're hearing well,
I'll wait till the elections today in Virginia and New
Jersey and New York. I mean, there's always another milestone
that was that we have to get through before five
saying Democrats will vote and open the government. That's what
we're down to, all right.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
I know you're on the very limited schedule, So I
do want to ask you one other thing. Though the
President has come out and said maybe it's time in
this situation or others, that we that we need to
do away with the filibuster. Your thoughts on.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
That, well, I am on record and I've said many
times that I don't believe eliminating the filibuster is a
smart thing for the future of our country, simply because
it preserves rights of the minority and it forces us
into negotiation into I think, better solutions. And so if
the you know, if the argument is the Democrats are

(09:40):
going to be in charge and they're going to do it, well,
they're going to pack the court, do voting rights, work
on abortion and gun rights, other things that they you know,
QW too. And I just think that for the tradition
and for the future, that the the filibuster preserve, nerves

(10:01):
and leads us to better policies. So and I also
signed a letter in December of twenty seventeen that said
that I would not vote to eliminate the filibuster. You know,
I don't write letters and make promises and then take
them away. So I'm pretty much locked in.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
Senor Shelley Moore capital give me about thirty seconds. I
know you have to go. But to your message to
the people of West Virginia, well, I would have.

Speaker 5 (10:23):
To say to that this week that looks like we've
got a little blue sky here to reopen the government.
The disservice that's been paid to West Virginians is so
avoidable without the political scenario that we find ourselves in.
And I've been working hard to trying to find solutions
across the aisle, which is I would think most people
would expect me to do.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
Senor Shelley Moore Capito, appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot, great, thanks,
have a good day.

Speaker 5 (10:47):
Tell Steve yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
I will. I appreciate it. Thank you a lot. It
is the senior Senator from West Virginia. It's Shelley Moore Capito.
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Your career starts here. West Virginia International Film Festival. It's
coming up. Delford Chafin is whether it's right now to
talk about it. Good morning, sir, and welcome to the show. Morning.

Speaker 11 (15:47):
Thanks for having me.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
You picked a good day to come in. We're celebrating
Ryan's birthday. We're celebrating Steve Bishop's forty fifth anniversary here,
so welcome. I hope you got some pastries or something
not yet the way, well, let me tell you. Let
me tell you if you didn't get them already the
way these jackals are here. Buddy, you're done too late,
You're done.

Speaker 11 (16:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
I have no thoughts in my head that when I
walk out of this studio at nine to fifty nine
that there's good to be anything left it there none whatsoever.
So tell us about this festival, tell us what the
purpose of it is.

Speaker 11 (16:17):
So yeah, it's our fortyth anniversary festival. The festival is
formed in nineteen eighty five. It's been a few years
since we've been able to have an actual festival format,
first due to you know, COVID, Plus we also operate
a year round cinema now, so that kind of takes
a lot of time as well. So we wanted to, though,
for our forty anniversary, get back to a good festival

(16:37):
format and just you know, we like to highlight films
at our local cinema and in our festival that won't
show up at you know, the local big theaters and
things like that. Most of these are international and independent
films that might not even play in the US at
all in some cases. Talk about your interest in this, yeah,
So I first became aware of it probably twenty five

(16:58):
years ago when I was a student at State, you know,
I was in the communications program there and a lot
of the professors were told me about this film festival
coming up. So I started going way back then, and
I've been on and off over the years many times.
So it was twenty seventeen when they started opening the cinema.
The VAUNT started volunteering down there and helping out, you know,

(17:19):
doing a little bit of painting down there back in
the day, and then eventually just joined the board and
became the president of few years after that.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
So we'll talk about your personal interest. Well, what is
it about international film that I mean, because that you know,
kind of got you involved in this. Why do you
like it so much?

Speaker 11 (17:34):
I like just the idea of, you know, getting to see,
you know, the world through other people's perspectives. Right, you know,
we're gonna we have films from China, Norway, Ireland, Morocco,
so we just get to see the world through a
very different set of eyes, especially like the Chinese one

(17:54):
is very outside of most of our lived experiences at
the time.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
So all right, and where is the first and win
is the festival?

Speaker 11 (18:01):
So it's November thirteenth through the sixteenth. It's going to
take place largely at Park Place Cinemas and then also
at our cinema underneath the Taylor Books, the Flora Lee
Hart Cohen Cinema. So we've got films playing both days
in both places until the evening when we all kind
of come together for our headlining features.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
I'm just and we'll get to those features here in
a moment. Again, we're talking to Delford chaff in West Virginia.
International Film festival. I just wonder what a difference that
the Internet has made in all these because, as you said,
a lot of these films that you're going to be
showing aren't necessarily ones that you're going to see at
your at your multiplex and so on and so forth.
You're probably not going to find them on in many cases,
even on some of the some of the streaming services

(18:40):
one of the more quote unquote traditional ones. But how
has it changed with the with the internet.

Speaker 11 (18:45):
Well, I mean not just the internet, but home theater
as well. Yeah, has certainly, you know, changed the amount
that people go to the movies and just in general,
I think, you know, the studios and the films are
being made also have something to play in that sometimes.
But and even when we see that, it depends on
what the movie is, whether people are interested in coming
out to see it versus staying home or watching it online.

(19:08):
But yeah, even though you can see so many films
now at home on the internet, some of the films
we're playing are I still haven't been able to find
streaming anywhere. So, you know, the film I mentioned from
Norway that director has twenty years of films and I
haven't been able to find any of them streaming.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
So given to it's not showing up on the on
the local streaming service cars what you're saying.

Speaker 11 (19:31):
Yeah, some of them eventually will, but not all of them.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
It's always interesting to me, you know, in this time
of uh as someone once called it short attention span theater, right,
that we all have now when everything's TikTok and everything's
like five ten second yeah, you know, snapchat videos or
YouTube or whatever, and if it's over a minute, you know,
you're not going to have people anymore.

Speaker 11 (19:53):
Yeah, we do have some you know, help for some
of those people too. We have four shorts that are
made okay here in West Virginia.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
I say that because this proves though that there is
still something. Oh yeah, you said for quote unquote long form,
which would be anything more than about ten minutes, right,
talk about those shorts that you have.

Speaker 11 (20:10):
So we have four West Virginia kind of short films.
One is Breaking Them Old by Justin Litton. It's a
story on Blinko Glass. It's about thirty minutes long. There's
another film called In Waiting and by local filmmaker he
used to be. He lives in California now, but he's
from here. There's a film called Coming Home by Doug
and Brogno who you might know. It's about no the name,

(20:31):
yeah yeah, de institutionalization here in West Virginia. And then
finally there's a film called Why Ukraine Matters. It's kind
of talks about the similarities between the people and Naplatcha
and the people in Ukraine's.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
And that's interesting to me because when you think international
Film Festival, automatically people's minds go to someplace totally different.
And there are the I'm sure artsy and the big
movies and things, but this takes in a lot of ground.

Speaker 11 (20:57):
What you're talking about here. We've got, you know, all
of different films. I mean, there are some artsier pictures,
like the Chinese film is very cinemilarity. It's very like
are just a real life experience almost, It's almost like
you're watching these people live their lives instead of a movie.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
But what uh, what are some of the things that
I mean, I know you're going to be a part
of it, but what are some of the things that
you that that excited you about this particular festival and
the films are going to be shown.

Speaker 11 (21:22):
Just the opportunity to get it back, especially at park Place.
It's kind of a cool opportunity.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
So we had to text somebody said they thought park
Place was closed. It is closed, but but it's open
for this festival.

Speaker 12 (21:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (21:31):
The City of Charleston owns it and they're looking for
a new tenant in there, but I don't know any
updates on that. But they are being generous enough to
let us use that space for a couple of days,
and they've been maintaining it and stuff.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
Yeah. How I was going to say, how are the
facilities there, because it's nice a maintain.

Speaker 11 (21:47):
Yeah, there's some things have been taken out obviously, but
you know, they just did some updated work on the
restrooms and things like that and everything's I love.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
I love Delford. I love when people when cities, you know,
community groups, people like yourself, when they get involved with
these with these older theaters and they say because they're
still I mean I know they do they're doing and
sometimes it's not all films, you know, sometimes there could
be theater. It could be music. I know the folks
at the Alburn Theatre and saying albits of double job.
The LaBelle Theater in South Charleston. We have a theater

(22:14):
in my hometown called the Coalfield Jamboree, the old Logan
Theater that seats well over a thousand people and they
still they don't use it for films, but they still
use it for things in the community. They have concerts
there and things of that nature. I love when people,
mainly volunteers, come together bring these things back to life.

Speaker 11 (22:31):
Yeah. Now, our friends at the Mountaincraft Film Fest weapon Clarksburg,
they've been using the Robinson Grand the pasts.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
It's a theater.

Speaker 11 (22:37):
That's a nice space.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
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So there's gonna be a lot of excitement around this.
And hats off to you and the others for for

(22:58):
for bringing this thing back.

Speaker 13 (22:59):
Man.

Speaker 11 (23:00):
Thanks, it's a it's a you know, we're an all
volunteer organization, our board, and you know we're all kind
of coming together to make this happen. One thing I'll mention,
we do have a couple workshops on Saturday morning with
Tijer Bumgardner is a film professor at and filmmaker locally,
uh and Clara Lehman and Jonathan Lecoke out a Helvisha
who owned an animation company up there and made a
couple of great films that we've shown recently. And then

(23:22):
on Sunday morning we have a brunch kind of meet
up with the Westernian Film Office and the Filmmakers Guild,
so they're all going to be there. That'll be over
at Coco's.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
And you mentioned the Film Office in West Virginia. I
know that there has been such a movement on over
the years to make West Virginia a place where people
can come not only to produce great films by West Virginian's,
you know, but also to get other people to come here.
Talk about that.

Speaker 11 (23:46):
Yeah, I know. Dave Lavender's head of the Film office
right now. Pam Haynes was over back in the day
and she was very involved with the film festival years ago.
But now, yeah, Dave Lavender is doing a great job
over there, bringing you know, films and shoots and stuff
into the end of the state. There's a lot of talent
here that gets used elsewhere as well.

Speaker 3 (24:03):
So well, and it always you know, when there's a
film that's being made in a West Virginia is the
setting or it's got West Virginia, the fact that they
film it in New Jersey or something like that, it's
just I'm just like, why not just do it here?

Speaker 11 (24:16):
Yeah, it's probably cheaper here.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
Yeah, well yeah, I mean, we know, the cost of
living stuff is cheaper here as well, and you're gonna
probably get a cheaper meal catering. Catering is going to
be a lot to talk about the role of the
volunteers though, I mean, like yourself and others in order
to to to bring this thing together.

Speaker 11 (24:33):
Yeah, as I said, our board is all volunteers, So
it's all of us, you know, working together in our
spare time to kind of put this together and research
these films and you know, do all the marketing and
reaching out and actually, you know, we have a call
out to volunteers right now to help us during the festival,
and we've got a number of people you know that
aren't on our board regularly showing up to do that,
you know, check people in you know, run the concession

(24:55):
stands like those types of things. So it's a it's
a lot of work. And I have volunt tiered down
at the cinema like as I mentioned in the past
when they're building it, and so you know, we're doing
some painting down there right now. So if anybody has
a paint brush they want to break down this weekend,
let me know you need volunteers.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
How can people reach you if they would like to
volunteer for this thing or just to learn more. We'll
get to the websites and social media and so on,
but yea for you personally, if somebody would like to volunteer.

Speaker 11 (25:19):
I mean, I'm on Facebook, as Delfred Chafin. I'm pretty
easy to find. But you know, just check out our
website as you mentioned of VFF dot org is the
best place to get a hold of us, or just
search for us on the Facebook or the Instagram.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
So all right, and they give us the dates again
in the locations.

Speaker 11 (25:33):
It's November thirteenth through the sixteenth. It's going to be
largely at Park Place. But when we're having to each
films show at least twice, so some of those will
be at the floor. Lee as well. Friday night we
have a movie trivia night at five Street and our
brunches at Cocos. So we have four different locations, all
kind of walkable there within central Charleston here.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
And we'll give a big shout out to the folks
at five Street because we have a great partnership with
them there. Our sister station in the Mountain is going
to be there live Thursday night. Coco's. By the way,
if you know this or not, Coco's was the people's
choice champions at the Mac and Cheese Festival at Capital
Market this past week.

Speaker 11 (26:08):
I did not make it that because, as I said,
I was painting.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
You're busy painting and you need more painters right now,
all right, Delfred, I appreciate you taking time to be here.
Man now all time, all right, to hang out with
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but yeah, it is. But we're also celebrating a little
bit our guy, Steve Bishop, forty five years. You've been
with this company, mister Bishop, forty five years, not entirely
this company, Okay, okay.

Speaker 17 (31:44):
So I don't know how it's been nineteen ninety early
nineties they bought V one hundred.

Speaker 3 (31:51):
Okay, okay, And so it's been thirty thirty some years
with them, and it hasn't always all been in this building, right, Uh, Okay,
talk about let's back up, let's talk about your your
coming to Charleston.

Speaker 17 (32:04):
By coming to Charleston was not expected I but I
was looking for somewhere to go to get more experience
because I was working in Charlotte and people asked me,
why did you leave Charlotte to come here? Well, this
was a better opportunity for me at the point of
the career, my career that I was in, so I
came here. It's almost like I went from the major markets,

(32:28):
you know, like the big ball team back to the
minor leagues. But that's that's kind of the thinking then.
So I would come here, get a little bit better,
get some more experience, and I would move along up,
you know, to a bigger city. Well who knew, because
I said earlier Charleston was like the one year, one

(32:51):
to two year plan, and so I thought, okay, it's
November nineteen eighty. I get here Election Day nineteen eighty.
My first day on V one hundred was a day
Ronald Reagan was elected president the first time. That's how
I've remembered this.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
Do you remember any music that you played on that
first thing?

Speaker 7 (33:06):
No?

Speaker 17 (33:06):
And what shift were you working? I came to work
in the and I was on in the afternoon. Okay,
So I moved to the morning show in February of
nineteen eighty four, and I've been doing it ever since been.
I was thinking about this last night. There have been
four people that did the V one hundred morning show
three prior to me, and so in me and whoever
inherits it.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
When I leave, you're not leaving.

Speaker 17 (33:28):
You don't think? No, No, I don't know. I don't
really know when when it's enough. I really don't. I
think about It's more in my head now than it's
ever been. Well, it does, because people start asking you. Yeah,
I turned sixty years old. People going started going when
are you retire? And I went, I've never even thought
about it, never.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
Sane I mean, are you sixty years old?

Speaker 11 (33:51):
No?

Speaker 3 (33:51):
No, fifty five, fifty five.

Speaker 17 (33:54):
But you got a long way.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
But I've been doing this for thirty seven years with
this company, only for five though I don't intent I'll
ever return. I mean I'm just gonna have one day
to hear and that's it. I'm done, and Ryan or somebody,
or Ryan Junior or somebody's gonna have to come in
and just like these. It's funny you.

Speaker 17 (34:11):
Say that, because I've had people tell me. My former
wife told me one time, she said, you're Paul. You're
the Paul Howard. For those of you who don't know,
Paul Howard worked until Paul Howard would have come to
work the day he died at ninety three if he
could have, but he couldn't. But my former wife told
me one time, she said, you're you're You're Paul Howard,

(34:32):
and she said you'll probably die on the air. Now,
she wasn't being mean, she was just being honest, like
she knows how knew how much I cared about what
I do and how much how much I've enjoyed it
and how much it's my it's been my life. That
she said, you probably drop dead on the air. And
I said, well, I hope that I hit the microphone
and turn it on as it happens, so that everybody

(34:55):
can tell maybe call nine one one. Steve seems to
be not functioning.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
Steve has more dead air than normal.

Speaker 17 (35:02):
Yes, there might be something going on. You better get
the authorities out there.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
So I don't know if you answered it. I but
do do you remember any of the music you played?
Because I'm trying to think I'm kind of a mute February.
I'm sorry. In November of nineteen eighty, John Lennon was
still living because he was killed the following month, So
I don't know. Yes, that album had come out, Double Fantasy,
I think it was out at that time.

Speaker 17 (35:22):
She might have been playing I was playing songs.

Speaker 3 (35:24):
Off there, starting Over, Yeah, yeah, all right.

Speaker 17 (35:27):
Starting Over I think was the hit song.

Speaker 18 (35:29):
Then.

Speaker 17 (35:29):
Yes, that that's talk about something happened, major happening in
your career, because you remember things like that. And I
wasn't on the air then. That was that night, but
I remember being watching Monday Night like everybody, and they
broke in and said what had happened? And I remember
the next morning. You know, I didn't work that morning,

(35:51):
but I remember the guy that was on and he
just he was a huge Beatles fan. He was just devastated.

Speaker 19 (35:58):
It was.

Speaker 17 (35:59):
It was terrible. I remember, I was this is the
weird for me. I was on the air in Charlotte
not on the air at the time, but I had
to work that night when Elvis died, and that I
didn't I had to ask my boss, I don't know
what to do. Tell me how I should be on
the radio because I was so new at it. Yeah,
I just said, I don't know, I don't know, and

(36:20):
he just he laid it out there. But that was
that was huge. There have been lots of things. I
remember this. This will maybe not be funny to some people,
but the day that Ronald Reagan was shot, remember that. Yeah,
when I was working in the afternoon, the guy, the
guy that was my newsman, he he hadn't come in

(36:42):
to tell me. There are people calling and saying, I
don't know if you heard, but the President's been shot
in Washington, and so that's a pretty big deal. I
go into the newsroom and I and I said, hey,
I want to embarrass him here. But I don't know
if he's still around or not. But I said, people

(37:02):
are calling telling me that the president's been shot. And
he goes, yeah, he goes, I'm going to get that
on and those at the top of the eye. I'm thinking, like,
I think you need to come in here.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
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what you always wanted to do? I think about the

(37:35):
fifth grade is when I became fascinated with it. And
what was it that led to you?

Speaker 20 (37:41):
Well?

Speaker 17 (37:42):
I thought, okay, I saw a guy at the County Fair.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
Everybody's got a storyline doing his radio.

Speaker 17 (37:46):
Show remotely playing forty five records remote, you know, on
the location there, and I thought that looks kind of
cool and I don't know, and then I thought it
might be a good way to get girls.

Speaker 19 (38:00):
You know.

Speaker 17 (38:03):
Well, it's funny. I met both my wives through my job.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
So how did that turn out for I'm just kidding,
I can get.

Speaker 17 (38:11):
Well, we're over to.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
Okay, Well, there's still hope though, we're done. You know,
we're done. Jex says, uh Dave's right, Steve, You're not
gonna leave because we're not gonna let you leave. Congratulations,
Thank you, congratulate Neil Cooper. Let me bring Neale Cooper
in here just for a moment.

Speaker 17 (38:27):
What you've heard enough of my old radio stories.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
No, no, no, no, no, I'm not I'm not.

Speaker 17 (38:31):
I can't. I can't even feel out why you'd want
me down here on this show to start with. You
must have who canceled?

Speaker 3 (38:36):
Well, if you, if you must know, Steve so so
Dale Cooper, you are a Charleston guy. Okay, I am not,
but I grew up. I know you hate hearing that,
but I hear it all the time too. I grew
up listening to Steve Bishop idea. But you saw him
out and about in the community growing up in Charleston. Yeah,
I did see Steve.

Speaker 18 (38:55):
Steve was a fixture of my I hate to say childhood, Steve,
but to some degree, and nineteen eighty I was.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
I don't.

Speaker 17 (39:01):
I don't hate that. That's okay. It's forty five years
a long time, it is.

Speaker 21 (39:04):
It is.

Speaker 18 (39:05):
I was six in nineteen eighty, so.

Speaker 17 (39:07):
I'm almost sixty eight years old now. It's okay.

Speaker 18 (39:10):
And I remember I remember Steve later Bill Shahan and
all of the big guys for the Charleston area, and
I V one hundred was over in Kannall City for
the longest time, right it was.

Speaker 17 (39:19):
We were on top of the right Ad drug store
when I got here, and now I don't even know
what it is.

Speaker 18 (39:25):
It's it's incredible because growing up in Kanall City, we
had our phone number over there was nine two five
eight six o and UH the for the AM station
at V one hundred was six eighty at the time, right,
So we would get on every especially Christmas morning, we
would get UH phone calls for for for nine to
five six eight oh so for for six eighty. So

(39:47):
I always knew somehow or nother that six eighty and
V one hundred was somehow related, yes, back then, and
Steve was one of the UH was the guy that
I knew as far as radio goes, that that was Steve.
And I was in Rady. I got in the first time.
Don Cook brought me on in the early nineties and
I worked here, but I didn't work with Steve a
lot then. I was mostly overnight. Maybe we saw each

(40:09):
other occasionally in the mornings or something like that if
I worked an overnight shift or I worked over on CHS,
So I didn't see Steve a lot when I came back,
though in twenty ten. I worked here twice before I
came back in twenty ten, and I've been here constantly
since then. The first time that I was super nervous
on radio was was doing traffic for Steve and Jenny.
It's the only time that I was ever super nervous

(40:30):
was was work. It was just it was like because
it was somebody that you knew, so like like I
didn't know but sort of knew and I and I
was like, man, I want to screw this up, and
I don't want to screw up like the best morning
show in the city, and I don't want to be
I don't know what I want to do to ruin
this thing. And all my days I've been nervous about
other things, like for me, but as far as just
being on the air, sharing air with someone, Being on

(40:51):
air with Stephen Jenny was the first time and maybe
the only time I've ever been really nervous.

Speaker 3 (40:54):
Where's Jenny, By the way she is?

Speaker 2 (40:56):
She?

Speaker 17 (40:57):
I don't know, she must not have a month time.

Speaker 6 (40:59):
I have a lot.

Speaker 3 (41:01):
Oh, speak of the devil.

Speaker 17 (41:03):
Well, Coop, thank you for that. And I'm sure after
you worked with me on the Metro News Hotline show,
you're like, oh my god, why was I older?

Speaker 20 (41:12):
You didn't even get a chance to get to that.

Speaker 18 (41:13):
Honestly, some of the best times I've ever had.

Speaker 17 (41:15):
Oh, thank you.

Speaker 3 (41:16):
Well, we'll say that for the fiftieth anniversary. How's that?

Speaker 17 (41:18):
Well, that's next year. Fifty years here. Oh that means
I got to work for five more years exactly.

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(41:48):
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Speaker 6 (41:49):
I'm good.

Speaker 22 (41:50):
I was told nine fifty to speak.

Speaker 17 (41:52):
Okay, no, you were told nine forty.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
Oh, sorry about that. Here we go we're going to
take it to this point and the partner ship's going
to end today.

Speaker 17 (42:01):
I do have add so there you talk about if
it hasn't ended yet, I don't think it's going to
I think we're okay.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
Well it is radio. Keep that in mind, all right. Jenny,
talk about the first time you were on the air
with Steve.

Speaker 6 (42:14):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 22 (42:14):
I did not know what to think of him. I
mean it was, you know, just a few years out
of college.

Speaker 17 (42:19):
You don't even remember when I do so remember.

Speaker 22 (42:21):
So we had Randy Dammren on one station and Steve
on the other side doing his FM show. I was
actually doing news for him when I first started.

Speaker 3 (42:31):
So kind of worked.

Speaker 6 (42:32):
We were.

Speaker 17 (42:33):
We weren't like a team then. That didn't happen till
the late nineties.

Speaker 3 (42:37):
Okayat but those idea wasn't to put you together.

Speaker 22 (42:40):
Actually, I think Dale Miller, former Presecond Time Company. The
second time, he kind of pulled me aside and he's like, Jenny,
I need you to work with Steve because I think
you're the only one who can handle it.

Speaker 3 (42:54):
Wow, welcome to your roast, Steve.

Speaker 11 (42:58):
The rest they say is his.

Speaker 17 (42:59):
Well, I I didn't well, I remember that, but I
was thinking that we worked. We worked at the country
station together, which is ninety six point one. I came
over and worked at WCHS in the morning for I
don't know, a year or so, and then they needed
somebody over at ninety six, and so I went over there.
I mean, technically I haven't been on V one hundred

(43:20):
all forty five years, but I just it's easier to
say that because I always had an association with the station.
Whether I because I tried twice to go do something else,
not because I hated V one hundred because I didn't.
I just wanted to try something else, so I did,
and then I always ended up back over there.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
Have you ever had a career other than radium? Have
you ever done anything else besides redoll?

Speaker 17 (43:42):
I was talking about this earlier. I've the time or
two I might have had a normal job. It didn't
last very long because I could never have a normal,
regular job. I just I couldn't.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
We're not normal people, No, we aren't.

Speaker 17 (43:58):
And it just didn't seem like that was in the
cards for me. It had to be some But I
never honestly thought that my radio career would last. It'll
be fifty years next year.

Speaker 3 (44:10):
And you started, as I mean, when you think about
when when you started your career, not necessarily here, but
when you started your career. The differences between now and then,
because again I've not been doing it as long as
you have, but I know the differences between when I
started thirty seven years ago and what it is now.
It's just I mean, there's just computer monitors everywhere, and

(44:30):
now that you've added social media to it, it's a
big part of it.

Speaker 17 (44:33):
It's different change, that's for sure. That's for sure. Technology wise,
it's gotten easier because I was famous for putting the
record on the turntable and having at as wrong speed.
That was because once in a while you'd play something
off an album and have to set it on thirty
three and a third, and then I'd forget to put

(44:53):
it back on forty five. I know some of somebody
listening is going like, I don't even know what he's.

Speaker 3 (44:57):
Talking I don't have no idea what he's talking about.

Speaker 17 (45:00):
Don't have any idea.

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Speaker 3 (47:35):
Hey sticks away from ten. Veterans have given so much.
Now it's our turn to give back with the words
that matter called three zero four nine three five five
zero zero record a message of thanks for a veteran
you love. We're going to share your thoughts on the
air throughout the month as part of our Salute to Veterans,
presented by Toyota Motor Manufacturing of West Virginia. You can

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also submit your stories at WCHS network dot com. Your
gratitude be heard to the veterans. Steering Veterans Moth from
the Voice of Charleston WCCHS. We're celebrating the Steve Bishop,
who is celebrating his forty fifth anniversary with this company.
Bobby Sprye joins us right now, and she's dying to
tell a Steve Bishop's story.

Speaker 21 (48:16):
Well it's really not that funny, but steveciate it's.

Speaker 17 (48:19):
Find it hysterical because it just is so true.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
It is so true.

Speaker 21 (48:23):
So I started working here at WBrC Media back in
twenty sixteen, and I remember standing up at the front
desk with my back towards the long hallway, and I'm
talking to whoever the receptionists may have been at the time,
and I hear Steve Bishop walking up the hall. Now
he was complaining about something. I don't remember what it was.
I just remember the tone of his voice. And at

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the time I had not met Steve, but as many
of us have grown up listening to Steve and Jenny,
in my mind, Steve was iconic, you know, he was
a legend. He was somebody famous that I never thought
i'd have the opportunity to meet. So I'm looking at
the receptionist saying, oh my God, is that Steve Bishop?

Speaker 19 (49:06):
Is that?

Speaker 21 (49:07):
Is that him walking behind me?

Speaker 22 (49:08):
And I was just so enamored.

Speaker 21 (49:10):
And then the joke is you fast forward three years later,
Steve would come down to the office to talk to me,
and I'd be like, Oh, hell, Steve, what do you
want to.

Speaker 7 (49:21):
Become?

Speaker 10 (49:22):
What is it now?

Speaker 17 (49:23):
Stee It just became one of her coworkers.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
Growing up, you talked about wanting to do radio. Who
are some of the people that you listen to?

Speaker 19 (49:32):
Me?

Speaker 18 (49:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (49:33):
Yeah, that you that there were some of your heroes? Anybody, Well,
I mean I would always you can say Fred Persinger
if you want.

Speaker 17 (49:41):
Well, I didn't know Fred till I got here, but
Fred's one of my heroes, that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (49:45):
He's one of mine as well.

Speaker 17 (49:47):
He's the best. I don't know I was since I
was fascinated with radio. I would I had a little
transistor radio that I stuck under my pillow at night,
and I would tune in w LS in Chicago and
and you know, w NBC in New York and w ABC,
because these were all fifty thousand watt radio stations that
got out over at night all over the country, and

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I would listen. You know, it's just again, I was
just fascinated with the whole the whole radio, how it
all worked, and these these guys that I listened to.
I don't know, if I don't know if people now
that are doing this or even have heroes, or if
that's the right term, or well.

Speaker 3 (50:29):
The business has just changed. You know this too. Business
has just changed so much that those iconic figures, even
on a local level. I mean, we're pretty damn lucky
in this company, you know which. I have you guys,
to have Woody Woods' Chris Lawrence's, to have Steve Animal here,
to have Rob Real, to have these people, these people

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here that people actually know in the community, because it's
not that way everywhere. No, no, it's not.

Speaker 17 (50:55):
It's different. It's it's definitely a different ball game now,
that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (50:58):
All Right, So how long are you going to continue this?
I keep going, I.

Speaker 17 (51:01):
Don't know, it's stopping, is in my head. But when
I don't know and I don't know, it's so another
forty five, I doubt it. I do have a goal
of living to be a hundred, but I don't have
a goal of working till.

Speaker 3 (51:20):
I got you. I got you, Genny. Give me one
thing about Steve that maybe people don't know.

Speaker 22 (51:24):
He talks on the radio to thousands of people every day,
but he is one of the shyest people.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
I've ever met. It's not uncommon.

Speaker 9 (51:32):
Right.

Speaker 22 (51:33):
We actually went to a company Christmas party and I
was sitting with Rick Johnson and his wife and Steve
called me on myself and he's like, where are you
right now? And I'm like, I'm sitting in here with
Rick and his wife. Would you come out to the
elevator and get me. He didn't want to walk in.
He was so shy even walking into a room with people.

Speaker 17 (51:51):
He people I work with and know and every day.
Just why does it become different when you're off the clock.
I don't know. It just was awkward.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
Well, and we're we're awkward people by nature. But I
got this is the best business in the world. Steve,
Thank you so much taking time out of your stands
and via And where's that key to the city. The
mayor gave you the key to the city.

Speaker 17 (52:15):
Okay, I have it, And that was that's so cool.
And I never expected that either. I didn't expect any
of this.

Speaker 3 (52:22):
Yeah, our friends at thirteen came and did a story
on it, so you may want to check that out.
We got pictures posted on the B one hundred social media.

Speaker 17 (52:27):
Steve Bishop, thank you, seriously, thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
All right, all right, we got to tell you we
got to go. That's what we got to do. We
got Wilson Medals coming up with talk Line ten o six.
I'll be back later today with Metro News, midday with
thirteen News, and Tonight Live anchor Manda Bart and me.
We'll see you the back on this show tomorrow with
Lance Wheeler and Millie Snyder. Until then, have fun and
love somebody.

Speaker 19 (53:00):
Yeah finding the w c h S A M ninety
six point five that's in Charleston one oh four point
five Cross Lane, a w VRC Media station.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
We're proud to live here too,