On this pre-Thanksgiving edition of the Dave Allen Show on 580 Live, Dave welcomes three West Virginia State University students — Madeline Bailey, Kylie Hanna, and Tabby — who lay out plans for January’s WVSU Orchestra Masquerade Gala, complete with jazz performances, student ensembles, dinner, dancing, and a silent auction. The group also talks communications careers, music at State, and building campus engagement. Later, Dave shifts to the retail front with Tony the Taylor, who breaks down Small Business Saturday, Charleston shopping trends, online-to-store buying habits, mall decline, and why local retail continues to grow. A lively holiday-week show loaded with community updates, local business insights, and a whole lot of laughter.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Unlock your dream property with meex Realty Group, where Rich
the realtor makes real estate dreams a reality, whether it's
residential or commercial. We've got Charleston to Huntington covered. Your
key to exceptional real estate experience is start here Meek's
Realty Group. Contact us at meeks dot us.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
The views and opinions expressed on this program do not
necessarily reflect the views and opinions of five adwchs, its employees,
or WVRC Media. From the studios of WVRC Media. The country,
the United States of America, the state West Virginia, the
city Charleston. This is the Dave Allen Show on five
(00:40):
eighty Live and your host.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
What we've got here is failure.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
With new Kay.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
He's kind of a big deal.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick
out a fall out of.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Bulon Dave Allen. Hey, if I'm saying good good morning
to you and welcome to the show. It's nine o
seven on a hey Wednesday morning. I've only been doing
this show for five years. I forgot to push a
button in here that's on me. This's a big, giant
on button, I guess is what kind of threw me off,
Bigley Pickley Wiggly Hotline three zero four three four five
(01:16):
fifty eight fifty eight Tony the Taylor text three zero
four nine three five five zero zero eight. We're in
the Jared Construction studios, right on time, right on budget.
Visit Jareddashconstruction dot com. Phone calls to the show a
service of big Lee, Pickley Wigglely, Spring Street, Charleston Texting
services provided by Tony the Taylor on Virginia Street. Tony's
actually going to join us in studio, coming up a
little bit later on. Of course his Thanksgiving hours today,
(01:37):
he'll be open till two is close tomorrow and on
Black Friday. Of course, we want to encourage everybody to
come down for Holly Jolly, Brawley and City Center on Friday,
and Tony's gonna be open on Saturday for small Business Saturday.
We're going to talk about that with Tony coming up
a little bit later on in the show and for more.
You can check out Tony's Facebook page or visit Bestmaster
Taylor dot com. Stephanie Poly is our producer today this
(01:57):
day before Thanksgiving, coming up a director of Capital Market.
His name is Chuck McGill. And if that name sounds familiar,
it should. He's been a longtime sportswriter here in the area.
Now he's a new director of the market. We'll talk
to him a little bit later on. And as I said,
Tony the Taylor is going to stop by two and
your phone calls and text are always welcome. Big Ley
Piggy Wiggly hotline three zero four three four five fifty
(02:17):
eight fifty eight, Tony the Taylor Text three zero four
nine three five five zero zero eight. Want to tell
you about a musical event happening at West Virginia State
University January the thirtieth at the Wilson Student Unions. Let's
start about six here to talk about it. We've got
to Madeline. Is that when I pronounced that right? Madeline say? Okay,
you're on radio, so you have to say something. Okay, yes, okay,
(02:38):
big gout, Madeline. And we also have Kylie Yes, and
we have Tabby Tabby. All right, So first of all,
let everybody to get to know you, introduce yourselves, tell
us what you're studying at West Virginia State. How'd you
get into this ill thing? Anybody can start go ahead,
I think I think they're electing you, so go ahead.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
I'm Madeline Bailey. I am a double major. I do music,
performance and communications with an emphasis in PR.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Okay, So I.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Started playing the flue when I was ten and I've
kept with it ever since. And I chose communications and
public relations because I enjoyed that aspect of it when
I was in high school. And I just thought that
planning this gala for the orchestra would kind of combine
the two. So the three of us thought it would
be a good idea, and we kind of stuck with
it ever since.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And that's one of the reasons why you're here, because
you folks reached out to me because you want to
get into the whole PR thing. And and by the way,
and by the way, just I didn't plan this. I'm
actually drinking out of my West Virginia State coffee mug today,
oh courtesy was my good friend Eric Cage, the president
out there when he was on the show one day.
I was drinking out of a Marshall coffee mug. And
because I'm a well I went to hol On Now
I went to Marshall, okay, And so I was drinking
(03:47):
and he said, he said, you know, you need a
West Virginia State coffee mug. And the next time he
came in, lo and behore. He comes in, he hands
me a West Virginia State coffee boy, I suck. Yeah,
so he brought gifts. You guys didn't bring anything.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Right, I wrote my presence.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Okay, that's presence, not with a T right. All right,
you're cut off. You're not going back on again. Okay,
but but but movies, and I wanted to bring up
the pr aspect of it because part of what you're
doing is is you need to get the word out,
so you contact your folks. Contacted me and so we'd
like to come on and talk about this big event. So, uh,
talk about your and I'll get to the other two.
I was just kidding, and talk about your your musical
(04:23):
experience when you started playing the flute? At what age I.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Started playing the flute to ten? I was blessed because
my parents let me have private lessons growing up. And
I always just thought the flu was a very cool instrument.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Say, what was it about the flute that I don't know?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
It just I always loved it. I always heard it
in movies and things, and you always saw people playing
the flute the wrong way. Usually in movies, it's playing
it the right way.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
They always do in movies, whether it's no matter what
the instrument is, guitar or whatever. My dad was a
pretty good guitarist and it would kill him watching movies
when people were playing guitar and they never moved their hands,
you know, they just especially on the neck of the guitar,
like no, stop that, stop that. So all right, now
introduce yourself.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Well, my name's Kylie Hannah, and I am a little
bit of an underachiever, so I'm just a communication. But
I have been involved with music my entire life. I've
been singing for as long as I can remember. I
play a little guitar, not anything to shake a stick at.
But I am a part of our school's jazz band,
(05:26):
and our jazz band's going to be performing at our gala.
And it's just a really, really amazing.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Band.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
I mean, Scott Woodard puts it together and he absolutely
rocks it. I mean, we have people who are students,
we have community members, we have professionals all in this band,
just like the orchestra, and it's just really an amazing
opportunity for people to grow to learn to have fun,
let loose a little bit, and it's just a really
(05:58):
cool environment and I've enjoyed getting to be a part
of it. So I just decided in my free time
I was going to be a part of something musical
on campus and.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
That was that.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
And I've been best friends with Maddie since high school.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
So would you guys? Where would you guys go to
high school?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
We're both homeschooled.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Actually homeschool okay, yeah, yeah, but you got to say
so you went to the same room in the same house.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
No, no, we did this. We did the same curriculum.
Not such a yeah, okay, but yeah, I love pr
and so I've really really enjoyed getting to put the
gala on and do a lot of the social media
we have. We're posting currently on two social media sites,
Facebook and Instagram, and we just are really enjoying getting
(06:46):
to put all of it together. We've been filming interviews
with all of the orchestra members and it's just been awesome.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
All right, and you said you were a singer. What's
your favorite genre? What do you sing?
Speaker 6 (06:56):
I mean, I'm a little biased, but jazz, Okay, that's
how I definitely love anything, Ella Fitzgerald, anything that King Cole.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
The classics, Yeah, the one sent to classic. I just
I just got into jazz a couple of years ago.
I'm a person that loves music of all kinds and
I just got into jazz a couple of years ago.
And my favorite is not any of those John Coltrane.
I'm a huge Coltrane fan.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
Love.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I love Coltrane, all right, and you are I'm Tabby,
all right, Tabby, and tell us about you.
Speaker 9 (07:27):
I'm a music performance major and a communications miner.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (07:32):
I played the trumpet. I started playing the trumpet when
I was in fourth grade. And I've always loved music.
So getting to put on an event like this and
be in college for music it it's really it's been
really fun and it's been a really good experience, and
I'm excited for this gala. It's gonna be fun, all right.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
And I will say something about this about the communications program,
uh and all of the curriculum. You know that state
is amazing, but the communications program is really good. And
we've had a lot of folks that have come through
here that were part of that program. Hollywood. Jeff Patty,
who produced this show for many years. You know, you
guys know Jeff well. Jeff, of course he works on
our sister station's ninety eight seven of the Mountain and
(08:12):
also KWS on the weekends. And Jeff and I have
known each other for a number of years. I hope
he's not listening right, because I'm gonnaive him a compliment.
Jeff's class act. He's a good dude, I was. I'm
lucky to have him as a friend and as a
coworker too. But don't ever tell him I said that,
all right, doing, all right, let's talk about the event.
Let's talk about the event. It's January the what thirtieth?
(08:34):
January thirtieth, all right, and what are people if they
come out for, what are they going to hear? What
are they going to experience that night?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
So we are having a bunch of things. We're having
live music by the jazz band. You'll hear her saying
she's very modest, but she has a gorgeous voice, and
she's not trained, she's she's got a gorgeous voice. So
you hear her saying, we have a bunch of people singing.
Our jazz band is incredible. We're going to have some
orchestra groups perform. This is in celebration of the ten
years of orchestra, so we're wanting to honor all the
(09:03):
hard work that people have put in. We're going to
have food for everybody and a silent auction, and we're
going to have live dancing and live music and we'll
have some recorded music too, and for you, we'll have
a silent auction for people with a bunch of fun things.
We can't let people.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Know that's part of them have part of the fun.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yeah, I'll have a little surprise for some people when
they get there. And we just want to have a
good time of people.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
And it says it's a masquerade ball, tell you we're
doing the whole Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
So you can't come in unless you have a mask.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Okay, yeah, and we're just one to get a mask
like that.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
Well Amazon, you can get a mask on Amazon, phon
co Bucks. I don't care what kind of mask you show.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Up and hardcore about it.
Speaker 9 (09:40):
Right.
Speaker 10 (09:41):
Well, we're going to have.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
A photo booth like a genuine red carpet so that
people can take photos. It's not going to be in vain.
So you know, show up looking absolutely stellar because your
photo is going to.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Be taken whether you like, whether you want it or not. Right,
So that's what you're saying. Where can people get tickets online?
Speaker 6 (10:00):
So we have we have links that are being posted
on all of those social media's. We have invites being
sent out on Facebook. You can register online RSVP.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
So yeah, we have an event on Facebook. Due to
the it's combined with the WVSU Music on Facebook and
the West Virginia State Orchestra on Facebook, and then the
link is online through the West Vinia State Foundation.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
Okay, all right, it's listed as the name of the event.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
All right, all right, hang out with me one second.
I got to take care of little business. Here to
Dave Allen Show on five eighty Live is brought to
you a part by rich the Realtor and Meeks Realtor Group.
Check out this beautiful home in one of Winfield's most
desirable neighborhoods, just moments away from award winning schools. You're
going to find modern updates, an open floor plan, and
a large stylies kitchen perfect for cooking and gathering. The
space's primary suite includes a walking closet and an updated bath.
(10:50):
The outside offers space great for play pats relaxing. Whatever
you want to do out here, it's moving ready to
in full comfort. Contact Rich three zero four nine three
two seventy four eighty eight or Rich line sixty six.
That's client with aktgmail dot com. You know, part of
the show that we do, ladies, is we get text
to the show and someone read a text that that
somebody texted. Okay, it says kids really should get into
(11:11):
music and marching band. Those were the best times I
had in junior high. In high school football games, conference parades,
field show competitions. They would be surprised at how many
of their favorite celebs were band geeks, including our own
Jennifer Garner, who played saxophone in the GW Patriots Marching
Band and she still plays.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
Absolutely I totally agree. I think that marching band is
a really really cool thing. Ours is kind of small,
but we lead it with pride, and we really really
show up for our football games. We have a pet
band going on for basketball games. I think that's getting started.
So we have a relatively small school, and with that
(11:50):
comes sometimes not a whole lot of interest in certain
aspects because people just don't know that it's going on,
and so I think that's why as communication majors, we
tend to feel a little like, oh, but there's so
many things going on, how do people not know about this?
And so we try to create that movement in the
(12:12):
student body so that people know that these things are
going on, because a lot of people they just don't
understand that. We've got a jazz band, we have a
pet band, we have a marching band, we have an orchestra,
we have we had a show band there for a
little bit, and I was a part of that as well,
And the only difference between jazz band and show band
(12:33):
was that show band had a real, real tall black
dude in front of it. And his name is Phil
Washington and he swag for days.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Everybody knows Phil, Yes, and Phil Washington is he'sa A yeah.
You see him on TV doing the lottery numbers all
the time, and he's very, very accomplished. What do you
guys hope to do? I'm gonna ask him a personal
question of all three? What do you hope to do
after graduation? Let's start with you. What do you what
do you do? You know which we'll do after graduation.
I like to go into music marketing, okay, all right,
all right, what about you?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Honestly I want to dabble and just about anything I
can get my hands in that's communications related. So I
really love broadcasting.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Okay, I'm taking notes here, by the way, just so
you know, because we're always looking for people.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
I'm a senior.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
All right, all right, Jeff Jenkins, if you're listening upstairs
in the news department, come down and talk to this
young lady or talk to all three of them. But
go ahead, and I'm.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Sorry, yeah, no, you're fine. I but broadcasting radio. I genuinely,
really really love anything PR related. So I think it
would be so fun to project manage and to put
my hands into something that I can really feel good
about and you know, bigger causes and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
So what about you.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
I am on the same lay as these too. I've
looked into music marketing as well, but I love doing
all of the aspects of communications. I work for sports
information right now and I'm learning broadcasting and how to
do the audio and journalistic aspects of it.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Stephanie Poly is our producer and uh and she can
help with that too, just so you know.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Yeah, I enjoy all of it.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
But she went to marshall, is that okay?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
You?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I guess all right, all right, what are you gonna do?
I let it slide all right again? I thought I
turned your microphone off. All right. So appreciate all three
of you been there. Give us the dates of the
concert again. We'll have you on before then, but give
us dates of the big event again January thirtieth, twenty
twenty six and ticket ser available on your social media. Yeah,
appreciate all three of you being here. Thanks a lot,
(14:35):
Thank you, And I'm serious. I think Jenkins is going
to come down and talk to you three about about
hiring today. So you may or not be at the concert.
You may be working that night, just so you know.
All right, all right, guys, hang out with me here
just one second a day. Violand Show on five eighty
Live has brought to you a party by Pinnacle Consultants.
There's services involved developing comprehensive management plans outline strategies for
controlling and minimizing as best its exposure. Perfect for commercial
(14:57):
property owners managers. Check out Pinnacle Corp Medical corp dot net.
Speaking of speaking, if you'd like to come read this
for me, you could Visipedical Corp dot net because what
you don't know can hurt you. We're gonna take a
break when we come back. Tony the Taylor, Stay away
from him. By the way, on your way out of here,
stay away from Tony the Taylor. He is coming up
next on the Voice of Charleston WCCHS.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Brought to you by the Eric Jtar Family Businesses. Eric
Jtar Family Businesses live to make life better for you
and your family.
Speaker 11 (15:26):
He's Donald Trump's number one enemy in Congress Chicago politician
Dick Durbin. Now Durbin has a new scheme. He's doing
the dirty work to benefit corporate mega stores. Durbin's bill
could cut corners on your credit card security, putting your
personal data at risk. Big chain retailers and warehouse stores
want to inflate their profits, and Liberal Dick Durbin would
(15:48):
help them do it. Tell Senators say no to the
mega stores and Dick Durbin paid for by the Electronic
Payments Coalition.
Speaker 10 (15:55):
This holiday season, Poka Valley is grateful for the trust
you placed on us. We appreciate your business and the
relationships we've built together at each of our eight locations,
and we're growing with a new branch in downtown Charleston,
opening in the new year. It's all part of being
there for you when and where.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
You need us.
Speaker 10 (16:15):
This Christmas, take time to cherish moments with loved ones
and remember the reason for the season. From all of
us at Toka Valley. Merry Christmas at Toyota.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Supporting our nation's heroes isn't just a promise, it's a purpose.
Through the Toyota Veterans Association, over fifteen hundred members nationwide
provide mentorship, advocacy, and career pathways for veterans transitioning from
service to success. Right here in West Virginia, Toyota proudly
honors our fallen through the Gold Star Mother's Apple Orchard,
a living memorial for reflection and remembrance, and our commitment
(16:48):
continues supporting local heroes, families and foundations that make our
communities stronger. Toyota driven to serve those who served us.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Welcome back to the show. It's nine twenty four of
a Dave Island showing five any line Brunch you apart
by your hometown baseball team, the Charleston Dirty Bird, Selango
loll Light the Night continuing over gomart Ballpark They're doing
it every night except Christmas night through January the first.
Get your tickets in advance by visiting Dblightthenight dot com.
Stephanie Paul's our producer today, Bigley Pigli Wiggly Hotline three
zero four three four five fifty eight fifty eight. Tony
(17:25):
the Taylor text three zero four nine three five five
zero zero A. Chuck McGill, the new director of Capitol Market's,
could have joined us a little bit later on the show.
Want to welcome in now our good friend Tony the Taylor.
How you doing man, Good morning, happy thanksgiving him. Dave
backed that microphone down a little bit because I you know,
a couple of those communications major we're a little soft speaking.
We'll work on that, but not.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
You, not me, not ye spoken.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
He heard you, you know, coming up out of South
Hills a minute ago. All right, So Small Business Saturday
and listeners know my opinions on this. We should always
shop small and locally when possible. But we'll get in
that a little bit later on. Tony, you have been
a big part of Small Business Saturday for some time.
You were telling me a story on the phone yesterday
twenty ten.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
We were the only store in West Virginia to participate
in Small Business Saturday. And it's an augur year of
twenty ten, and then it's slowly picked up and then
it's become a big thing. Like Black Friday. We don't
participate in Black Friday. We give our employees that day off,
give them a today rest because from Black from Small
Business Saturday until Christmas Eve, it's full throttle to.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Let the roll aids kick in on the day after. Well,
and let's be honest, I mean, Black Friday is not
the big deal that it used to be like twenty
years ago. Right, There's no.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
When I was Cabbage Patch kids and you know all
there's different crazy toys that I bought when my kids
were young. Yeah, but yeah, so there's nothing really like that,
and there's no more. I mean, one hundred dollars television
is like a normal price now.
Speaker 12 (18:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Yeah, but but I mean I just remember, you know,
what it used to be like. And I was always working,
so I you know, doing it all on Doring in
the morning show. My Black Friday was me being on
the air at you know, five point thirty in the morning.
But I can remember, you know, the news reports of
how it used to be wild, and it's not that
way anymore. But small business Saturday has just continued to
get bigger and big. I had the mayor of Hurricane
(19:15):
on the show on Monday, and then Hurricane is a
very very small town. Okay, they go all out for it.
I mean, you can't walk down the streets of Hurricane
for their you know, eight nine businesses that they have.
And of course the valley parks got stuff going on
and throughout Day's valley. I know South Charleston saying everybody's
got stuff a big deal.
Speaker 7 (19:32):
And it's the second largest volume day in the Christmas season.
The biggest is always and always has been the Saturday
before Christmas, no matter where it falls with Christmas. Sometimes
it's Christmas Eve that still be the biggest retail day.
And the Christmas season again, it's a short window this year.
We only have four Saturdays to get it done this year,
(19:55):
two years back to back, so retail sales will reflect
that when they report. Then sometimes we get five weeks.
Generally it depends just when Thanksgiving falls.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
And here's here's one of the knocks that I hear
about Charleston. There's nowhere to shop.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
There's nowhere to those are the people who never come
to Charleston. They I mean, they obviously don't on my street.
I'm on a corner of Haile in Virginia. If you
walk two blocks north, there's every storefront is filled and
full of great little shops and restaurants. Capitol Street is
not a big retail center, but there's some great eateries there.
There's a couple of retail stores there. There are still
(20:34):
a couple of stores left in the mall here. But
then also you go just right up the hill there
and you have Bridge Road Shopping are great specialty stores
up there, fantastic. It's the way of retailing nowadays. There's
a mixture of online, small shopping areas and then larger
retail areas like South Ridge, which is huge. Everybody talks
(20:54):
you know, the hold the mall in Huntington. Well, Huntington
Mall wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the five times
as many stores that are on out parcels and are
surrounding it. It's just the way it is. People just
don't shop at enclosed malls anymore.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Just this fact and the interesting thing about that, to mean,
we're talking to Tony the Taylor Parnzino about small business Saturday.
The interesting thing about that is is that you know,
you and I are roughly we Okay, no, you're a
lot older than me. But but we remember the heydays
of the malls, and it didn't have to be the town,
so it could be any mall across America and going
to the mall. Fast times at Ridgemont High, you know
(21:27):
which the movie that changed my life by the way,
Uh I was cool act Yeah, yeah, well bb Kate's
pool scene. That's all I got to say about that
single handedly propelled me into puberty.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
But but I but I will say that the days
of going people still go to malls. Okay, they still do. However, Uh,
the bigger we've gotten, the smaller we've gotten, because there's
people that still love to go to these small shops,
just like the ones you mentioned in Charleston. And you
do incredible business down there, but you're still considered small
business obviously, but you but you're one though, and there
(22:00):
are several others that have kind of bridged that gap
between Okay, you can still come in and just look around,
but you also do things online. You also do things
you can do trunk shows and things of that nature.
So I think the successful business in twenties twenty five
Tony had about to be twenty twenty six has got
to kind of be a marriage of all of them.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
You have to be omni channel if you're in retail,
no matter what size, I'm small to large. If you
have no Internet presence, you're not in business. We have
a very robust online store and ship all over the
country eight or nine packages a day. We're one of
the larger, probably single store online retailers in the country
for men's clothing. I sold three Oxford suits online ship
(22:43):
to Massachusetts. One went to Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
And these are people that people you need to realize.
These are people that in many cases don't have any
ties to this area. They're not from Charleston and said, well,
I still want to shop with Tony or whatever. The
people that just did the the Google machine search engine
and found you, you know.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
And what's amusing to me sometimes is I recognize some
of the names I'm sending to. Uh, there'll be celebrities,
there'll be business type I mean other than me, other
than well, yeah, well you you walk in the store.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Okay, that's truely true with your entourage. But yeah, yeah,
but so.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
It's just fascinating to me. But that's that's the way
it is, and it's it's fun and it keeps us going.
I mean, it really does. But again, it used to
be more than our own, than our in store business,
and now our in store business has surpass because Charleston again,
people are coming here. We have to collect your data.
I have people moving here all the time, and these
are the people you want moving here, professionals and it's
(23:36):
fantastic and people can say no. But the housing situation
reflects that there's a shortage of houses. There's a reason
there's a shortage of house. Yeah, and people are moving here.
And it's not just Charleston. I mean it goes on
down through the valley. Well, the whole thing is Charleston. Yeah, people,
this border thing, you're going across the board, you know,
I mean Charleston has forty eight thousand people. Then you
(23:56):
cross over the river and you got another thirty thousand
added to they're really are trading area is about six
hundred and fifty thousand people. Is our trading right now,
which is the Metro Valley and Logan we go to Pikeville.
That's that's pretty much. If you're in retail, that's you're trading, right.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
We talked to Tony the Taylor appearing Zino about small
Business Saturday to Dave Allen showing five a d Live
broad to you part by Live Healthy West Virginia presented
by WVU Madison, a podcast promoting healthier lifestyles. Check avalate
this episode's wv Metronews dot com under the podcast menu.
So what small Business Saturday look like for Tony the Taylor.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
We have great promotions again. Quarter zips are hot. That's
the hot item. That's the that's the cabbage patch kid
apparently of Christmas twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
But you're not gonna get a kidney injured trying to
find one.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
We're doing a buy one, get one free on all
sweaters that day in store only on that but we
have outerwear at half price. We have great selection of shoes,
got a special selection of Johnson and Murphy's that are
seventy nine ninety nine for a dress roof, you need
a nice banner black dress, jew some other great deals
going on. You can check our website at Bestmaster Taylor
(25:01):
dot com for that and then we're ready to go.
Don't forget to come downtown for Holly Jolly Bray on
Friday of Art Walk. We are not open for this,
but so I can go out and actually enjoy it.
Some great events we have the Holiday Shopping Village going
on Slack Plaza, and you know, don't forget to stop
in my buddy at Sam's Uptown for a nice great
(25:23):
meal and a cocktail and walk around pod. It will
be an effect and it would be a great time.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
And again, you know, I had you on to talk
about your business because you're, you know, kind of up
sponsored this show, but I also wanted you to hit
on the other businesses, which you've done, because it's not
just it's not just the Tony the Taylor Show. I
mean everybody else is everybody. Everybody's taking part of it.
And again, that vibrant downtown and I think people kind
of you know, and Holly Jolly Bray has been such
(25:48):
a big part of that over the last you know,
the last holiday seas.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
I have to tell you Kevin Madison and Morgan Morrison
they work their tails off year round for this event
and every year they make it better and better and better.
And I'm pumped for the drone show that last year
was good, this year it's going to be spectacular.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah. Yeah, we had a text here for you and
that says, uh, how do you know measurements are accurate
if you're going by what someone posts on an online order.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
Well, most things we sell online are belts, shoes, sports wear.
Very rarely we get things that we were don't do
anything custom made online except for belts. We have custom
belts online and we call them and that's the way
it is, or I will go visit them. Most we
don't really sell custom shirts online or that's it's impossible
(26:35):
to do accurately.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Well, And the great thing I think about about your
store is is people can go in there and they
can shop and not you know, you guys are experts.
You and Ryan, you know you do a great job.
And you go in and you know, okay, I gotta
I got a formal event coming up. Help me. And
I know I've hung out at your store enough to
(26:59):
know that that you get a lot of that people
coming in or put somebody bringing a kid in for
a Christmas formal or something like that, and and and
they don't know. What they don't know is that they.
Speaker 7 (27:07):
Don't even weddings. You know, we do three or four
weddings weekend, which which is a huge business. We're probably
the largest tuxied to rental place in the thing. Well
we're cheaper than everybody else and we do it better
than everybody else. So it's it's uh, you know, it's
just fun. And we interview you first. We just want
to give you something. We want to make sure you
look good and feel good when you leave. And AM
(27:29):
sure event that's important, look good and feel good.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Now you're a Charleston guy, I mean, born, born in bred,
and like what I always said, you're born and bred.
When you die, you'll be Charleston dead. But uh, talk
about people always want to look back on any town
Tony and they all want to say, well this I
remember how it how it used to be, and that's okay.
People have a tendency to look back through rose colored
glasses sometimes, you know, and it's not always like It's
(27:55):
like with music. You know, all the music of the
eighties was the best of all. It really was. It
really was. I mean, but we look about it and
you know, but but talk about what it was like
and there's still a lot of positive things going on,
But talk about growing up in Charleston East End kid
and what Charleston was like. And my point is not
to say it was better then than it is now.
I'm just saying it's just different.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
It's just different. It's just the way it is. I
mean again, And my dad started the store in nineteen
seventy four and I had to go to work. I
was nine years old, and downtown was thriving. It was busy,
and it's where everything wasn't Its like every downtown in
America was like that. And then the mall was built,
and Charleston was kind of on the forefront of building
the mall downtown rather than out in the outskirts, which
(28:39):
sucked down life out of downtown. Well, this mall did
suck the life out of downtown just four or five
blocks away. However, it we stayed downtown because we're downtown.
Store men don't go to shopping malls. And we thrived
and thrived and grew and grew and grew, and then
investment came downtown professionals building these buildings rehaving them, which
(29:03):
puts people down there. And then what happens. Restaurants open
up and service stores open up and it's just a
part of retailing. Then mall started to decline in the
late nineties. It's just the reality of it all over America,
not just in Charleston. And then strips shopping centers started
opening up on the outskirts. If you go to Columbus,
(29:24):
you're right, Oh, I go to go to Easton and
go to Columbus. That's not an indoor mall. It's an
outdoor mall. And the people who owned the Town Center
when they sold their portfolio, except for the Town Center
because it was heavily in debt. The group of the
Australian Big Mall group, every mall they bought of the
twenty four that twenty five malls of twenty four they bought,
they tore them all down and turned them into outdoor
(29:46):
shopping many downtowns basically, And that's just the way it is.
It's all over the country. The Internet really, you know,
I might have hurt malls a little bit. However, what
we see now is people will shop on our store
locally on the internet and then come and pick it
up in the store and then augment their purchase and
(30:09):
a lot of a lot of larger retailers are seeing
that if you're paying attention and reading like the Wall
Street Journal about retailing and well, and.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
You're a person that is never shy to give opinions.
So I'm gonna I'm gonna ask you your opinion of
the town Center, the current State town Center.
Speaker 7 (30:26):
It is sad to me what the other way it
will ever work. It just needs to be leveled and
rebuilt into an entertainment and arts district. You're right beside
one hundred million dollar facility. You need restaurants, you need
entertainment style stores. That's the only way I work. People
who want to buy and have all these ideas, they're
(30:47):
just clueless to retail. They have zero idea what they're
doing we're thinking about. I like people who think about it,
but again their ideas are just shot.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Well. I mean, it was originally, you know, and this
has gone back and forth. We've had a commissioner Silango
and the mayor and others on to talk about this
that originally we talked about taking the town Center and
you know, making it into an aquatic center, and then
the funding you know, kind of went away. And that's
still it's still got something's still going to happen. Uh there,
But you got to understand that that mall is owned
(31:17):
by a private company as it stands right now, and
that private company, as long as they're paying their taxes
and as long as they're not, there's no you know,
there's not any major issues there. Not really a lot
of people can do. I don't understand their business model.
They've done this in other places. The whole group is
purchased malls and and let them and just let them decline.
That's what they do for tax reasons. I suppose. I
(31:38):
don't know, and I say that to say I agree
with you one hundred percent. I am a supporter of
something for that mall. That's not I mean. And to
these people that say, Tony, well, if we just put
a blank in there, it was David Busters. Uh you know,
God Blest, one of my former producers. If they just
put a David Busters, they saved them all. If we
just put a you know whatever, No, not one store
is not going to save them all. It's not about
(32:00):
it needs to be an entire, an entire entertainment complex.
What needs to be leveled. Okay, but when you have
these people that come in for these big events like
at it, Shiney and whatever. They may play a game
at six o'clock on a Friday night and not play
another one till one o'clock on Sunday. What are they
gonna do. They're not gonna sit in a hotel room.
They got to have something. Come down to Tony the
(32:21):
Taylor we do. We get tons, exactly tons of direct
business from these soccer tournaments and softball tournaments in these
large youth sports. If I may talk about the sports
complex real quick, we're we're just waiting on a federal funding.
We are waiting Shelley Moore and at the time Senator Mansion.
We have an ear mark, and these guys in Washington
(32:41):
can't get their stuff together and to get a budget done.
And when it's done, the earmark will pop up and
we will get it and then we can finish. We've
done our part. The city of Charleston in the county
has done their part, and we're just waiting for your
congress people who are douless to do their part and
that and then we'll move forward. These things just aren't
(33:02):
built overnight. In the Aquatic Center, there's a reason they're
all nonprofit because they are abhorribly expensive and the maintenance
on them is out of control.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
I can see that, and every private one has obviously.
I mean, just just do a little reading and research.
There's money pits because again they're dealing with water. I
think it'd be great, but who's going to pay for it?
Are you willing to pay? Are you willing to pay
more taxes to have that? And nobody is they're not.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
He's never shied with opinions. That's one of the reason
why you and I get along so well. I think,
all right, tell us, let's recap the small business Saturday again.
Your business is going to be closed tomorrow and Friday.
You'll open up on Saturday. But there's a lot of
activities going on downtown. Just final forty five seconds, forty
four five seconds.
Speaker 7 (33:48):
We have a Black Friday art Walk downtown Holly Jolly
Brawley Saturday, Small Business Saturday. We open at ten, close
at five, which are a long day come down, free
parking and all of the ground and all the meters
on Saturday. Also, I want to mention we're having an
Alan Edmonds and a Bras trunk show on December fourth,
a week from Thursday. It's a huge event, great deals,
(34:10):
and I appreciate you having me on here day.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
So what you're saying is you're going to suck more
of my money out of my pocket?
Speaker 7 (34:17):
Right, Actually stopped by payroll and there's four year check
to me.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Well you know you all right, I appreciate it. Text
says Weight. You both said people are coming here to shop,
but we can't support them all.
Speaker 7 (34:32):
Correct because stores don't are especially stores don't located in malls.
That's right.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
But your business is good, that's huge.
Speaker 7 (34:41):
I mean it grows every year. It grows every year.
We're the largest men's clothing store in the two hundred
mile radius.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Okay, have you back on again soon? You behaved your secated.
I have no delay on. Oh no, I told you
this morning. We started that delay at eight thirty this
morning to get ready for Tony the Tailor. Tony the
Taylor is here and again a small business Saturday, whether
it's in Charleston, whether it's in South Charleston, Hurricane or
support them all, go shop small, shop small all right.
(35:08):
The Dave Island Show on five any Line is brought
to you a part by the all New Generations Ford
of Hurricane, your family and locally owned Ford dealership Generations
providing their customers with X Plan discount pricing and the
purchase of select new Ford vehicles. You pay what Ford
suppliers pay. They're also offering zero present financing for new Fords.
Check them out today. Off the hurricane accident Online Generations
for dot Com one destination for every Generations Generations for
(35:32):
dot Com. New director of Capital Market His name is
Chuck McGill and he is in the building and we'll
talk to Chuck when we come back on the Voice
of Charleston w CCHS.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Brought to you by the Ericjtar Family Businesses. Eric Jtar
Family Businesses want to thank you for supporting local small businesses.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
I'm John Morgan and Morgan and Morgan. Have you been
injured in a trucking incident? Call today Morgan and Morgan
for the People Office, two twenty two Capital Street, Charleston.
Cases will be handled by West Virginia Licens Attorneys. The
attorney in this ad is non licensed in West Virginia.
For the People dot Com as you shop for others.
Speaker 13 (36:06):
Fourth Avenue Financial invites you to give yourself the gift
of professional financial planning. What better way to start the
new year than consolidating old four ohn ks, examining your
current investments and preparing for retirement. Call me John Burdette
at three zero four seven four six seven nine seven
seven or contact us at Fourth Avenue Financial dot.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Com Securities offer throughjnebu Co Financial Incorporated, Member Fatacific Advisory
Services offer through JABU Co Advisors Incorporated, JWO Financial, JWA Advisors,
and Fourth Avenue Financial or U affiliated entities.
Speaker 12 (36:35):
My name's Chris Miller. I'm president of Dutch Miller Automotive.
Jarrett Construction completely renovated and helped redesign Dutch Miller Kia
and South Charleston. The fit and the finish in the
quality of the project is exceptional. He has an attention
to detail and an I for that kind of stuff.
You always want to give your best to your customer.
It's just as important to him as as this to you.
If you're ever looking to build anything, I'd call Jerrett
(36:56):
Construction because you know exactly you're going to get something
excellent every single time.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Come on Chares Conuction, Dave Allum here for the all
new generations. Forward a hurricane with construction underway and the
new Fords hitting the lot each day we're providing our
customers with X plan discount price fee on the purchase
of select new Ford vehicles. This means you pay what
Ford suppliers pay. On top of these market only discounts.
We're also offering zero percent financing for new Fords. Visit
(37:22):
us today off the Hurricane accent or online at Generations
for dot Com one Destination for every Generation, Generations for.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
One Destination for Generation Zenuations.
Speaker 14 (37:34):
For your words can make a difference. Call three zero
four nine three five five zero zero eight, then leave
a message of gratitude for a veteran or right one
online at WCHS network at dot com a salute to
veterans from five eight WCCHS and Toyota Motor Manufacturing, West Virginia.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
Welcome back to the show team. Minutes away from ten.
Text says Easton does have an indoor section. That's right,
they do, and we appreciate that Tony was talking about
Easton up in Columbus that there is an indoor section,
but the majority of it is outdoors. I would think
text says, as a business owner, don't get political. You
saw what going one way did to Budweiser a few
years ago. Keep your political views to yourself. Well, appreciate
(38:20):
the text. No, Tony does too, but you just don't
know Tony the tailor just and I say that at
the best possible way. Didn't the public vote on an
aquatic center put that in the mall like promise? Well,
no they did not. Texas. How many other men's stores
are in two hundred miles with Charleston and large in
terms of sales, square footage, spirit opinion. Well, let's see.
(38:41):
I'm going to say within two hundred miles of Charleston,
I can name off the top of my head at
least at least fifteen, at least fifteen. I'm saying I'm
off the top of my head at least fifteen. I
know Tony's got a list, because you know he does
things like that, so we'll kind of get about fifteen,
I would say, But Dave Allen, that's just Tony's. If
(39:04):
I ton if I'm wrong, I know you're listening, you
can text me. But Dave Allen showing five a Eline
Brown too, bar By Husband's Pizza this month, get a large,
A two and Nitch Pepperoni pizza and an eight inch
chocolate chip cookie only twenty three ninety nine. Check at
your nearest husbands for delivery dynad or pick up a
husbands pizza dot com. There is a new director of
Capitol Markets, Chuck McGill's name, and he joins us right now.
(39:24):
Good morning, sir, welcome to the show. Good morning. Your
name is certainly familiar to those of us run here,
but give those who may not know who you are.
Give us your background.
Speaker 15 (39:33):
Sure, born and raised in Charleston. Grew up, I guess
the first in South Charleston, then the West side, and
then I'm an Eastern Connall County product. Roots duke, last
class of DuPont High School. We shut it down.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
Okay, they said, we're done afteress.
Speaker 10 (39:47):
That's it.
Speaker 15 (39:48):
So yeah, So I've my roots are in Charleston. We
came back in two thousand and nine. My wife is
from Pittsburgh and she came back with you. We had
our son here. Worked at the Charleston Daily Mel then
when the Gazette and Daily Mail emerged, was the sports
editor there, and then spent my last ten years in
collegiate athletics, first at Marshall University and for the past
fifteen months at the Mountain East Conference. So I've been
(40:10):
at the Division one, Division two level of college athletics,
so very non linear journey here. But I'm back to
you know, back home, you know. And I grew up
running around Plaza East and going to Capital Market when
it was still a recycling facility, like you know, so
you know, I understand the history there and the tradition
and the nostalgia that comes with it. And when I
(40:31):
saw it, you know, I just I went after it
with gusto.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
What was it that made that made it appealing to you?
Speaker 15 (40:37):
Yeah, I mean the the the you know, we we
took my son there when he was you know, when
he was a toddler. And you know, I think, you know,
convincing people that I'm not just a sports guy was
a thing that I was at least concerned about. The
the hiring committee seemed less concerned about it as I
went through. But you know, I'm a music guy, I'm
(40:59):
an arts guy. I love museums, I love food. You know,
my interests are varied. And you know, Capital Market for
us was you know, uh, you know, a cornerstone of
Charleston and it's where we took you know, out of town,
visited outse That's where we you know, it's it's what
we wanted when we wanted to showcase Charleston, what we
were about.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
That's where we went. I was going to say, because
whenever people come to Charleston, my experience has been and
my wife's company would say the same thing. When they
came to Charleston, they'd say, well, you know, we have
time in the evening, where do we need to go?
That was always number one. You got to go to
Capitol Market one hundred percent.
Speaker 15 (41:30):
So there's established brand there and I have an appreciation
for that nostalgia, the memories that people make, you know,
sorting through through pictures, I can see my son with pumpkins.
We went there and picked out our Christmas trees. You know,
when we lived in South Hills in Charleston, it was
always a big thing for me to have the hanging flowers,
you know, So my wife and I would go and
pick out the flowers, and you know, we'd go into
(41:53):
inside the Capital Market. We were there for an event
a few weeks ago, and my son wanted to go
in and get something from the sushi garden, you know,
so like it's just it has everything, and it's everything
that I want Charleston to be and so to kind
of be a caretaker of it, like it's a really
big deal to me.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
What is your vision for Capitol Market?
Speaker 15 (42:10):
Yeah, I mean we want to grow.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
There's challenges there.
Speaker 15 (42:14):
There's built in challenges as far as it being kind
of landlocked on all four sides with parking lots or
Smith Street. But we want to grow, find ways to grow,
find ways to engage the community more and create that
next generation of people who care about the market. You know,
that's you know, my son's thirteen years old, so I
(42:34):
want him to grow up and have children and that's
their destination on the weekends or the evenings or whatever.
So I want it to be a really family friendly
place and you know, a place where everybody goes like
you're saying, and kind of be that that gem of Charleston.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
Can you hang out with me here one second? Yeah,
because here's a shocker. We went a little bit long
with Tony the Taylor. That's fine, imagine that Tony's worth it. No,
he's not all right. I want to take a break.
I want to let you know. With the Dave Island
Show on five eighty Live is broad to part by
Morgan to Oregon, America's largest injury law firm. If you're injured,
visit for the People dot com over Chuck McGill, the
new director of Capitol Market. When we come back on
the Voice of Charleston WCCHS.
Speaker 11 (43:12):
The Dave Allen Show is presented in part by Generations
Forward in Hurricane, part of the Eric J.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
Tar family of businesses, fall is here, and the only
thing that's falling faster than the leagues in West Virginia
are the prices on Jeep Grand Cherokees at Walker, Chrysler, Dodge,
Jeep Ram in Hurricane. Right now, Geene and Ryan have
over fifty Grand Cherokees in stock, and each one of
them have been marked down. Walker has the largest selection
of Grand Cherokees in the canav Valley, and all of
(43:37):
them need new homes. Check this out. Grand Cherokee Limited
with third row seating now Walker Price with up to
eleven thousand dollars off MSRP. And you know you're going
to get the best deal possible at Walker because Gene
and Ryan built their business the old fashioned way by
making friends. There are no gimmicker games at Walker, just honest,
fair deals. So don't wait. Take advantage of these great
(43:59):
savings before old Man Winter settles into the Mountain State
for good. Take that short twenty minute drive from Charleston
or Huntington to Walker Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram just off
the Hurricane exit of I sixty four Walker Chrysler Dodge
Jeep Ram. Making friends one deal at a time.
Speaker 8 (44:14):
College basketball fans, the holiday season tips off with a
showdown in the Mountain State at the Holiday hoop Fest.
It's West Virginia versus Wake Forest Saturday, December the sixth
at the Charleston Coliseum. Get ready for a high stakes
battle filled with fierce defense, fast paced action, and that
big game energy only college hoops can bring. Tickets start
at just thirty bucks that are available now at ticketmaster
(44:36):
dot com or at the Charleston Coliseum box office. The
Holiday hoop Fest West Virginia Wake Forest where the season
heats up.
Speaker 3 (44:47):
Welcome back to the show. It is eight minutes away
from Tamaday Island show in five eighty line Brown two
part our Bridge Valley Community and Technical c College Insurance
AG is arey demand and in the state all across
the country too. Bridge Valley can help you take that
first step. Their Licensure pre Sales Licenser course prepares you
(45:07):
to sit for the state required Property and Casualty Insurance
Licensed Exam and to start your career in this ever
growing field. Checkout Bridge Valley dot edu for details Bridge
Valley Community and Technical College. Your career starts here. Big
Ley Pickley Weekly Hotline three zero four three four five
fifty eight fifty eight. Tony the Taylor Text three zero
four nine three five five zero zero, and I knew
that Tony would be listening. We had a question about
(45:27):
how many men shops were there in a two hundred
miles radius that he says independent stores within a two
hundred mile radius about nine. I was a little high
on that, so they're about nine or so within a
two hundred mile radius. Chuck McGill is here, the new
director of Capital Market. So we're getting into Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Always a big time at the Capitol Markets. Give us
an idea of some things that are playing for holidays.
Speaker 15 (45:49):
Sure, yeah, I'm coming in at the right time. The
bur months are.
Speaker 3 (45:52):
Right or the wrong time, No, I want to look
at it.
Speaker 15 (45:54):
That's always my favorite time of the year. So I'm
an October baby, So I'm a fall guy. I'm a
winner guy. But we have the Feasts of the Seven Fishes.
My first day is Monday, and we have an event
that night that's already sold out, Feasts of the Seven Fishes.
That's a that's a huge deal. And then on the
tenth is the Market Mingle, the Merry Market Mingle, So
that's the next big thing. You can go on Capitol
(46:16):
Market dot net and get tickets stills for that one.
So those are our big events, and then you know
we're just getting you know, getting the market all festive.
I mean there's there's been people painting windows, and the
Christmas trees are there, and there's you know, lights everywhere,
and of course, uh you know we're gonna go judge
Christmas trees after this, you know at Holly Jolly Braley.
(46:36):
So we're involved with that and it's just a really
exciting time to you know, dive in with with two feet.
Speaker 3 (46:42):
And you talk about and this is what Tony and
I we're talking about a little earlier about Charleston really
becoming a holiday Christmas destination. I mean between Holly Jolly
Brawley and the Light the night and just everything else
through the largest Christmas parade around that'll be next week,
and what's going on at Capital Market, and just I
(47:04):
mean there's so many things going on in Charleston at
one time. For Christmas.
Speaker 15 (47:08):
Yeah, I got my market email set up and the calendar. Candice,
the director of Market and Communications at the Capital Market,
started adding things to my calendar and I was like
flipping through and I was like, Okay, this event's that night,
this of the parades, this night the market mingles, this night,
it's loaded. And I think that speaks well of Charleston
that there's always something going on and the synergy that
(47:30):
the market has with downtown and you know, there's there's
your trolley's going around taking you from place to place,
and there's vendors and there's music, and there's something to
do every night, you know, this weekend with the tree
lighting ceremony. So I think it's really cool the vibe
and the momentum that Charleston has, especially around the holidays.
Speaker 3 (47:47):
Talking to Chuck mcgild again, who is the new director
of a Capital Market, I want to throw this in here,
this little promotion that we're going to be doing starting
next week. You can save up to sixty percent off.
This is wv Bargains won't be caught. Save up to
sixty percent off on items like certificates to Eddie's Tyron Service,
pest control services from Spotlight Pest Control, gas fireplaces from Fireside,
and patio tent rentals from Quantum, sixty percent off car
(48:10):
detailing services from Oak Citiado, Spa, jewelry certificates from pettit
jwelry tax services from Penny Pincher, certificates to Dunbar Furniture,
and more items all across the valley and across the state,
really across state lines too in our surrounding states where
we have WVRC media properties. And again it's going to
kick off next Monday. It'll run through the fifth wv
Bargains dot Com. Wv Bargains is a WVRC media promotion,
(48:32):
all right. So we talked about some of the struggles
of capital market, mainly not of your own doing but
or the market's under end, but just because you are
kind of landlocked there. But on your wish list and
I'm not saying these are going to be promises from
Chuck McGill, okay, but on your wish list, what would
you like to see?
Speaker 15 (48:50):
I think I've been really encouraged. So I've been in
Huntington for nine years, but we've come back all the
time because Charleston is my home. My mom and dad
are here, my aunts and uncles are here, cousins are here,
and what I've seen from the downtown and how you know,
a rising tide lists all boats situation, so you get
five Street and then you get short Story for example.
(49:10):
I think having the area around the market also lifted
up would benefit the market. Yeah, so I think that's
a very long term, ambitious goal. But with the ballpark
there and the light the night and all that brings
and kind of the the natural flow to the market,
if if, if the area around the market was also enhanced,
(49:32):
I think that would benefit the market a lot. With
its proximity to the interstate and the you know, the
interchanges there and the easy on and off. I would
love to see that area kind of lifted up, like
the downtown's been listed lifted up. But that's a you know,
very long way. It's outside of my control exactly exactly.
Speaker 3 (49:48):
But that's that's why we call it a wish list. Yeah,
you know, absolutely, And you're talking about being in Huntington,
I think it's amazing what they have done with Pullman
Square in Huntington because I was a student at Marshall
in the early nineteen nineties and we all remember or
the super Block. We've been talked about going back to
the eighties. They're gonna build this big thing down and
it was just promise after promise, broke it and then
lo and behold, one day Pullman Square pops up and
(50:09):
it has totally revitalized that area absolutely, And that's a
great blueprint for us to follow. And I've watched that,
you know, I went to Huntington in twenty sixteen and
was able to watch that kind of evolve over the years.
So that's that's, you know, in in game, that would
be my top goal. All right, well, Chuck, I appreciate
you stopping by the show, and I know you're going
(50:30):
to do great things over there. You've got a great
marketing director and Candaice, but you also got a great
board of directors over there. Big shout out to my
man Steve Keith and then he gu us over there.
So we'll let you get out of here and let
you go downtown and judge from Christmas trees and we'll
have you on a few more times between now and Christmas,
and of course you're always welcome here throughout not the year.
Appreciate you man. All right, thank you, Dave, all right,
thanks a lot. We're gonna transition over talking to my
man TJ. Meadows coming up in talk line at the top.
(50:53):
Hang out with me just once. Can you give me
like two or three minutes because I need to talk
to you a little bit. Okay, but I'm gonna turn
your microphone off now. How's that all right? DJ Meadows
is here? What you got on talking? It's the after show, buddy,
that's what you stayed around for, the after show, the
after party.
Speaker 16 (51:09):
A ten oh six E. Gordon Ghee joins us today.
You know, doctor Gee penned another commentary that was in
the Hill talking about college athletics.
Speaker 3 (51:17):
He's been talking more.
Speaker 16 (51:19):
Now that he's not a president, which I really enjoy.
Speaker 3 (51:22):
So we're gonna get into that with Gordon.
Speaker 16 (51:23):
We'll probably talk Thanksgiving in a host of other things
as well with him. Bridget Lambert of the West Virginia
Retailers Association on Black Friday joins us at ten thirty.
Hobby's in at eleven six. He's got issues with what
the CDC has done about Vaccine Mornings courtesy of Robert
Kennedy Junior. So we'll talk about that and I'm sure
other you know, top like, there's nothing to talk about now,
(51:45):
there's nothing going on that Hobby would want to opine about.
My buddy Mike McKenna has a great piece out. He's
a columnist for the Washington Times talking about Thanksgiving. We'll
speak with him on that. I want to pick his
brain on a few things Trump. You know, he used
to be he was in the Trump administration during the
first term, and so he's got that unique perspective as well.
I want to talk about about tariffs, I want to
(52:07):
talk about going after Comy and several other things with
Mike as well.
Speaker 3 (52:12):
All right now, Programming note, there will be no local
show of mine tomorrow and Friday. I'll be back on Monday,
but Metro News Midday is coming up later today. We'll
have a best of Metro News Midday tomorrow and then
a live show on Friday. No Amanda Baron on Friday
for Metro News Midday. I will be here. Speedy Bevans
Broadcasting Legend will be my guest.
Speaker 16 (52:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (52:31):
Pretty cool, pretty cool. I might to stick around and
just listen to a well come on in, come on in, man.
All right, we gotta go. I'll see you later today
on Metro News Midday. Until later I had to thank
for a minute. I have fun and love somebody.
Unlock your dream property with meex Realty Group, where Rich
the realtor makes real estate dreams a reality, whether it's
residential or commercial. We've got Charleston to Huntington covered. Your
key to exceptional real estate experience is start here Meek's
Realty Group. Contact us at meeks dot us.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
The views and opinions expressed on this program do not
necessarily reflect the views and opinions of five adwchs, its employees,
or WVRC Media. From the studios of WVRC Media. The country,
the United States of America, the state West Virginia, the
city Charleston. This is the Dave Allen Show on five
(00:40):
eighty Live and your host.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
What we've got here is failure.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
With new Kay.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
He's kind of a big deal.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick
out a fall out of.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Bulon Dave Allen. Hey, if I'm saying good good morning
to you and welcome to the show. It's nine o
seven on a hey Wednesday morning. I've only been doing
this show for five years. I forgot to push a
button in here that's on me. This's a big, giant
on button, I guess is what kind of threw me off,
Bigley Pickley Wiggly Hotline three zero four three four five
(01:16):
fifty eight fifty eight Tony the Taylor text three zero
four nine three five five zero zero eight. We're in
the Jared Construction studios, right on time, right on budget.
Visit Jareddashconstruction dot com. Phone calls to the show a
service of big Lee, Pickley Wigglely, Spring Street, Charleston Texting
services provided by Tony the Taylor on Virginia Street. Tony's
actually going to join us in studio, coming up a
little bit later on. Of course his Thanksgiving hours today,
(01:37):
he'll be open till two is close tomorrow and on
Black Friday. Of course, we want to encourage everybody to
come down for Holly Jolly, Brawley and City Center on Friday,
and Tony's gonna be open on Saturday for small Business Saturday.
We're going to talk about that with Tony coming up
a little bit later on in the show and for more.
You can check out Tony's Facebook page or visit Bestmaster
Taylor dot com. Stephanie Poly is our producer today this
(01:57):
day before Thanksgiving, coming up a director of Capital Market.
His name is Chuck McGill. And if that name sounds familiar,
it should. He's been a longtime sportswriter here in the area.
Now he's a new director of the market. We'll talk
to him a little bit later on. And as I said,
Tony the Taylor is going to stop by two and
your phone calls and text are always welcome. Big Ley
Piggy Wiggly hotline three zero four three four five fifty
(02:17):
eight fifty eight, Tony the Taylor Text three zero four
nine three five five zero zero eight. Want to tell
you about a musical event happening at West Virginia State
University January the thirtieth at the Wilson Student Unions. Let's
start about six here to talk about it. We've got
to Madeline. Is that when I pronounced that right? Madeline say? Okay,
you're on radio, so you have to say something. Okay, yes, okay,
(02:38):
big gout, Madeline. And we also have Kylie Yes, and
we have Tabby Tabby. All right, So first of all,
let everybody to get to know you, introduce yourselves, tell
us what you're studying at West Virginia State. How'd you
get into this ill thing? Anybody can start go ahead,
I think I think they're electing you, so go ahead.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
I'm Madeline Bailey. I am a double major. I do music,
performance and communications with an emphasis in PR.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Okay, So I.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Started playing the flue when I was ten and I've
kept with it ever since. And I chose communications and
public relations because I enjoyed that aspect of it when
I was in high school. And I just thought that
planning this gala for the orchestra would kind of combine
the two. So the three of us thought it would
be a good idea, and we kind of stuck with
it ever since.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And that's one of the reasons why you're here, because
you folks reached out to me because you want to
get into the whole PR thing. And and by the way,
and by the way, just I didn't plan this. I'm
actually drinking out of my West Virginia State coffee mug today,
oh courtesy was my good friend Eric Cage, the president
out there when he was on the show one day.
I was drinking out of a Marshall coffee mug. And
because I'm a well I went to hol On Now
I went to Marshall, okay, And so I was drinking
(03:47):
and he said, he said, you know, you need a
West Virginia State coffee mug. And the next time he
came in, lo and behore. He comes in, he hands
me a West Virginia State coffee boy, I suck. Yeah,
so he brought gifts. You guys didn't bring anything.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Right, I wrote my presence.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Okay, that's presence, not with a T right. All right,
you're cut off. You're not going back on again. Okay,
but but but movies, and I wanted to bring up
the pr aspect of it because part of what you're
doing is is you need to get the word out,
so you contact your folks. Contacted me and so we'd
like to come on and talk about this big event. So, uh,
talk about your and I'll get to the other two.
I was just kidding, and talk about your your musical
(04:23):
experience when you started playing the flute? At what age I.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Started playing the flute to ten? I was blessed because
my parents let me have private lessons growing up. And
I always just thought the flu was a very cool instrument.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Say, what was it about the flute that I don't know?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
It just I always loved it. I always heard it
in movies and things, and you always saw people playing
the flute the wrong way. Usually in movies, it's playing
it the right way.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
They always do in movies, whether it's no matter what
the instrument is, guitar or whatever. My dad was a
pretty good guitarist and it would kill him watching movies
when people were playing guitar and they never moved their hands,
you know, they just especially on the neck of the guitar,
like no, stop that, stop that. So all right, now
introduce yourself.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Well, my name's Kylie Hannah, and I am a little
bit of an underachiever, so I'm just a communication. But
I have been involved with music my entire life. I've
been singing for as long as I can remember. I
play a little guitar, not anything to shake a stick at.
But I am a part of our school's jazz band,
(05:26):
and our jazz band's going to be performing at our gala.
And it's just a really, really amazing.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Band.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
I mean, Scott Woodard puts it together and he absolutely
rocks it. I mean, we have people who are students,
we have community members, we have professionals all in this band,
just like the orchestra, and it's just really an amazing
opportunity for people to grow to learn to have fun,
let loose a little bit, and it's just a really
(05:58):
cool environment and I've enjoyed getting to be a part
of it. So I just decided in my free time
I was going to be a part of something musical
on campus and.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
That was that.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
And I've been best friends with Maddie since high school.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
So would you guys? Where would you guys go to
high school?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
We're both homeschooled.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Actually homeschool okay, yeah, yeah, but you got to say
so you went to the same room in the same house.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
No, no, we did this. We did the same curriculum.
Not such a yeah, okay, but yeah, I love pr
and so I've really really enjoyed getting to put the
gala on and do a lot of the social media
we have. We're posting currently on two social media sites,
Facebook and Instagram, and we just are really enjoying getting
(06:46):
to put all of it together. We've been filming interviews
with all of the orchestra members and it's just been awesome.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
All right, and you said you were a singer. What's
your favorite genre? What do you sing?
Speaker 6 (06:56):
I mean, I'm a little biased, but jazz, Okay, that's
how I definitely love anything, Ella Fitzgerald, anything that King Cole.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
The classics, Yeah, the one sent to classic. I just
I just got into jazz a couple of years ago.
I'm a person that loves music of all kinds and
I just got into jazz a couple of years ago.
And my favorite is not any of those John Coltrane.
I'm a huge Coltrane fan.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
Love.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I love Coltrane, all right, and you are I'm Tabby,
all right, Tabby, and tell us about you.
Speaker 9 (07:27):
I'm a music performance major and a communications miner.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (07:32):
I played the trumpet. I started playing the trumpet when
I was in fourth grade. And I've always loved music.
So getting to put on an event like this and
be in college for music it it's really it's been
really fun and it's been a really good experience, and
I'm excited for this gala. It's gonna be fun, all right.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
And I will say something about this about the communications program,
uh and all of the curriculum. You know that state
is amazing, but the communications program is really good. And
we've had a lot of folks that have come through
here that were part of that program. Hollywood. Jeff Patty,
who produced this show for many years. You know, you
guys know Jeff well. Jeff, of course he works on
our sister station's ninety eight seven of the Mountain and
(08:12):
also KWS on the weekends. And Jeff and I have
known each other for a number of years. I hope
he's not listening right, because I'm gonnaive him a compliment.
Jeff's class act. He's a good dude, I was. I'm
lucky to have him as a friend and as a
coworker too. But don't ever tell him I said that,
all right, doing, all right, let's talk about the event.
Let's talk about the event. It's January the what thirtieth?
(08:34):
January thirtieth, all right, and what are people if they
come out for, what are they going to hear? What
are they going to experience that night?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
So we are having a bunch of things. We're having
live music by the jazz band. You'll hear her saying
she's very modest, but she has a gorgeous voice, and
she's not trained, she's she's got a gorgeous voice. So
you hear her saying, we have a bunch of people singing.
Our jazz band is incredible. We're going to have some
orchestra groups perform. This is in celebration of the ten
years of orchestra, so we're wanting to honor all the
(09:03):
hard work that people have put in. We're going to
have food for everybody and a silent auction, and we're
going to have live dancing and live music and we'll
have some recorded music too, and for you, we'll have
a silent auction for people with a bunch of fun things.
We can't let people.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Know that's part of them have part of the fun.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yeah, I'll have a little surprise for some people when
they get there. And we just want to have a
good time of people.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
And it says it's a masquerade ball, tell you we're
doing the whole Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
So you can't come in unless you have a mask.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Okay, yeah, and we're just one to get a mask
like that.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
Well Amazon, you can get a mask on Amazon, phon
co Bucks. I don't care what kind of mask you show.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Up and hardcore about it.
Speaker 9 (09:40):
Right.
Speaker 10 (09:41):
Well, we're going to have.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
A photo booth like a genuine red carpet so that
people can take photos. It's not going to be in vain.
So you know, show up looking absolutely stellar because your
photo is going to.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Be taken whether you like, whether you want it or not. Right,
So that's what you're saying. Where can people get tickets online?
Speaker 6 (10:00):
So we have we have links that are being posted
on all of those social media's. We have invites being
sent out on Facebook. You can register online RSVP.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
So yeah, we have an event on Facebook. Due to
the it's combined with the WVSU Music on Facebook and
the West Virginia State Orchestra on Facebook, and then the
link is online through the West Vinia State Foundation.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
Okay, all right, it's listed as the name of the event.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
All right, all right, hang out with me one second.
I got to take care of little business. Here to
Dave Allen Show on five eighty Live is brought to
you a part by rich the Realtor and Meeks Realtor Group.
Check out this beautiful home in one of Winfield's most
desirable neighborhoods, just moments away from award winning schools. You're
going to find modern updates, an open floor plan, and
a large stylies kitchen perfect for cooking and gathering. The
space's primary suite includes a walking closet and an updated bath.
(10:50):
The outside offers space great for play pats relaxing. Whatever
you want to do out here, it's moving ready to
in full comfort. Contact Rich three zero four nine three
two seventy four eighty eight or Rich line sixty six.
That's client with aktgmail dot com. You know, part of
the show that we do, ladies, is we get text
to the show and someone read a text that that
somebody texted. Okay, it says kids really should get into
(11:11):
music and marching band. Those were the best times I
had in junior high. In high school football games, conference parades,
field show competitions. They would be surprised at how many
of their favorite celebs were band geeks, including our own
Jennifer Garner, who played saxophone in the GW Patriots Marching
Band and she still plays.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
Absolutely I totally agree. I think that marching band is
a really really cool thing. Ours is kind of small,
but we lead it with pride, and we really really
show up for our football games. We have a pet
band going on for basketball games. I think that's getting started.
So we have a relatively small school, and with that
(11:50):
comes sometimes not a whole lot of interest in certain
aspects because people just don't know that it's going on,
and so I think that's why as communication majors, we
tend to feel a little like, oh, but there's so
many things going on, how do people not know about this?
And so we try to create that movement in the
(12:12):
student body so that people know that these things are
going on, because a lot of people they just don't
understand that. We've got a jazz band, we have a
pet band, we have a marching band, we have an orchestra,
we have we had a show band there for a
little bit, and I was a part of that as well,
And the only difference between jazz band and show band
(12:33):
was that show band had a real, real tall black
dude in front of it. And his name is Phil
Washington and he swag for days.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Everybody knows Phil, Yes, and Phil Washington is he'sa A yeah.
You see him on TV doing the lottery numbers all
the time, and he's very, very accomplished. What do you
guys hope to do? I'm gonna ask him a personal
question of all three? What do you hope to do
after graduation? Let's start with you. What do you what
do you do? You know which we'll do after graduation.
I like to go into music marketing, okay, all right,
all right, what about you?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Honestly I want to dabble and just about anything I
can get my hands in that's communications related. So I
really love broadcasting.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Okay, I'm taking notes here, by the way, just so
you know, because we're always looking for people.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
I'm a senior.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
All right, all right, Jeff Jenkins, if you're listening upstairs
in the news department, come down and talk to this
young lady or talk to all three of them. But
go ahead, and I'm.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Sorry, yeah, no, you're fine. I but broadcasting radio. I genuinely,
really really love anything PR related. So I think it
would be so fun to project manage and to put
my hands into something that I can really feel good
about and you know, bigger causes and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
So what about you.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
I am on the same lay as these too. I've
looked into music marketing as well, but I love doing
all of the aspects of communications. I work for sports
information right now and I'm learning broadcasting and how to
do the audio and journalistic aspects of it.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Stephanie Poly is our producer and uh and she can
help with that too, just so you know.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Yeah, I enjoy all of it.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
But she went to marshall, is that okay?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
You?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I guess all right, all right, what are you gonna do?
I let it slide all right again? I thought I
turned your microphone off. All right. So appreciate all three
of you been there. Give us the dates of the
concert again. We'll have you on before then, but give
us dates of the big event again January thirtieth, twenty
twenty six and ticket ser available on your social media. Yeah,
appreciate all three of you being here. Thanks a lot,
(14:35):
Thank you, And I'm serious. I think Jenkins is going
to come down and talk to you three about about
hiring today. So you may or not be at the concert.
You may be working that night, just so you know.
All right, all right, guys, hang out with me here
just one second a day. Violand Show on five eighty
Live has brought to you a party by Pinnacle Consultants.
There's services involved developing comprehensive management plans outline strategies for
controlling and minimizing as best its exposure. Perfect for commercial
(14:57):
property owners managers. Check out Pinnacle Corp Medical corp dot net.
Speaking of speaking, if you'd like to come read this
for me, you could Visipedical Corp dot net because what
you don't know can hurt you. We're gonna take a
break when we come back. Tony the Taylor, Stay away
from him. By the way, on your way out of here,
stay away from Tony the Taylor. He is coming up
next on the Voice of Charleston WCCHS.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Brought to you by the Eric Jtar Family Businesses. Eric
Jtar Family Businesses live to make life better for you
and your family.
Speaker 11 (15:26):
He's Donald Trump's number one enemy in Congress Chicago politician
Dick Durbin. Now Durbin has a new scheme. He's doing
the dirty work to benefit corporate mega stores. Durbin's bill
could cut corners on your credit card security, putting your
personal data at risk. Big chain retailers and warehouse stores
want to inflate their profits, and Liberal Dick Durbin would
(15:48):
help them do it. Tell Senators say no to the
mega stores and Dick Durbin paid for by the Electronic
Payments Coalition.
Speaker 10 (15:55):
This holiday season, Poka Valley is grateful for the trust
you placed on us. We appreciate your business and the
relationships we've built together at each of our eight locations,
and we're growing with a new branch in downtown Charleston,
opening in the new year. It's all part of being
there for you when and where.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
You need us.
Speaker 10 (16:15):
This Christmas, take time to cherish moments with loved ones
and remember the reason for the season. From all of
us at Toka Valley. Merry Christmas at Toyota.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Supporting our nation's heroes isn't just a promise, it's a purpose.
Through the Toyota Veterans Association, over fifteen hundred members nationwide
provide mentorship, advocacy, and career pathways for veterans transitioning from
service to success. Right here in West Virginia, Toyota proudly
honors our fallen through the Gold Star Mother's Apple Orchard,
a living memorial for reflection and remembrance, and our commitment
(16:48):
continues supporting local heroes, families and foundations that make our
communities stronger. Toyota driven to serve those who served us.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Welcome back to the show. It's nine twenty four of
a Dave Island showing five any line Brunch you apart
by your hometown baseball team, the Charleston Dirty Bird, Selango
loll Light the Night continuing over gomart Ballpark They're doing
it every night except Christmas night through January the first.
Get your tickets in advance by visiting Dblightthenight dot com.
Stephanie Paul's our producer today, Bigley Pigli Wiggly Hotline three
zero four three four five fifty eight fifty eight. Tony
(17:25):
the Taylor text three zero four nine three five five
zero zero A. Chuck McGill, the new director of Capitol Market's,
could have joined us a little bit later on the show.
Want to welcome in now our good friend Tony the Taylor.
How you doing man, Good morning, happy thanksgiving him. Dave
backed that microphone down a little bit because I you know,
a couple of those communications major we're a little soft speaking.
We'll work on that, but not.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
You, not me, not ye spoken.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
He heard you, you know, coming up out of South
Hills a minute ago. All right, So Small Business Saturday
and listeners know my opinions on this. We should always
shop small and locally when possible. But we'll get in
that a little bit later on. Tony, you have been
a big part of Small Business Saturday for some time.
You were telling me a story on the phone yesterday
twenty ten.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
We were the only store in West Virginia to participate
in Small Business Saturday. And it's an augur year of
twenty ten, and then it's slowly picked up and then
it's become a big thing. Like Black Friday. We don't
participate in Black Friday. We give our employees that day off,
give them a today rest because from Black from Small
Business Saturday until Christmas Eve, it's full throttle to.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Let the roll aids kick in on the day after. Well,
and let's be honest, I mean, Black Friday is not
the big deal that it used to be like twenty
years ago. Right, There's no.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
When I was Cabbage Patch kids and you know all
there's different crazy toys that I bought when my kids
were young. Yeah, but yeah, so there's nothing really like that,
and there's no more. I mean, one hundred dollars television
is like a normal price now.
Speaker 12 (18:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Yeah, but but I mean I just remember, you know,
what it used to be like. And I was always working,
so I you know, doing it all on Doring in
the morning show. My Black Friday was me being on
the air at you know, five point thirty in the morning.
But I can remember, you know, the news reports of
how it used to be wild, and it's not that
way anymore. But small business Saturday has just continued to
get bigger and big. I had the mayor of Hurricane
(19:15):
on the show on Monday, and then Hurricane is a
very very small town. Okay, they go all out for it.
I mean, you can't walk down the streets of Hurricane
for their you know, eight nine businesses that they have.
And of course the valley parks got stuff going on
and throughout Day's valley. I know South Charleston saying everybody's
got stuff a big deal.
Speaker 7 (19:32):
And it's the second largest volume day in the Christmas season.
The biggest is always and always has been the Saturday
before Christmas, no matter where it falls with Christmas. Sometimes
it's Christmas Eve that still be the biggest retail day.
And the Christmas season again, it's a short window this year.
We only have four Saturdays to get it done this year,
(19:55):
two years back to back, so retail sales will reflect
that when they report. Then sometimes we get five weeks.
Generally it depends just when Thanksgiving falls.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
And here's here's one of the knocks that I hear
about Charleston. There's nowhere to shop.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
There's nowhere to those are the people who never come
to Charleston. They I mean, they obviously don't on my street.
I'm on a corner of Haile in Virginia. If you
walk two blocks north, there's every storefront is filled and
full of great little shops and restaurants. Capitol Street is
not a big retail center, but there's some great eateries there.
There's a couple of retail stores there. There are still
(20:34):
a couple of stores left in the mall here. But
then also you go just right up the hill there
and you have Bridge Road Shopping are great specialty stores
up there, fantastic. It's the way of retailing nowadays. There's
a mixture of online, small shopping areas and then larger
retail areas like South Ridge, which is huge. Everybody talks
(20:54):
you know, the hold the mall in Huntington. Well, Huntington
Mall wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the five times
as many stores that are on out parcels and are
surrounding it. It's just the way it is. People just
don't shop at enclosed malls anymore.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Just this fact and the interesting thing about that, to mean,
we're talking to Tony the Taylor Parnzino about small business Saturday.
The interesting thing about that is is that you know,
you and I are roughly we Okay, no, you're a
lot older than me. But but we remember the heydays
of the malls, and it didn't have to be the town,
so it could be any mall across America and going
to the mall. Fast times at Ridgemont High, you know
(21:27):
which the movie that changed my life by the way,
Uh I was cool act Yeah, yeah, well bb Kate's
pool scene. That's all I got to say about that
single handedly propelled me into puberty.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
But but I but I will say that the days
of going people still go to malls. Okay, they still do. However, Uh,
the bigger we've gotten, the smaller we've gotten, because there's
people that still love to go to these small shops,
just like the ones you mentioned in Charleston. And you
do incredible business down there, but you're still considered small
business obviously, but you but you're one though, and there
(22:00):
are several others that have kind of bridged that gap
between Okay, you can still come in and just look around,
but you also do things online. You also do things
you can do trunk shows and things of that nature.
So I think the successful business in twenties twenty five
Tony had about to be twenty twenty six has got
to kind of be a marriage of all of them.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
You have to be omni channel if you're in retail,
no matter what size, I'm small to large. If you
have no Internet presence, you're not in business. We have
a very robust online store and ship all over the
country eight or nine packages a day. We're one of
the larger, probably single store online retailers in the country
for men's clothing. I sold three Oxford suits online ship
(22:43):
to Massachusetts. One went to Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
And these are people that people you need to realize.
These are people that in many cases don't have any
ties to this area. They're not from Charleston and said, well,
I still want to shop with Tony or whatever. The
people that just did the the Google machine search engine
and found you, you know.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
And what's amusing to me sometimes is I recognize some
of the names I'm sending to. Uh, there'll be celebrities,
there'll be business type I mean other than me, other
than well, yeah, well you you walk in the store.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Okay, that's truely true with your entourage. But yeah, yeah,
but so.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
It's just fascinating to me. But that's that's the way
it is, and it's it's fun and it keeps us going.
I mean, it really does. But again, it used to
be more than our own, than our in store business,
and now our in store business has surpass because Charleston again,
people are coming here. We have to collect your data.
I have people moving here all the time, and these
are the people you want moving here, professionals and it's
(23:36):
fantastic and people can say no. But the housing situation
reflects that there's a shortage of houses. There's a reason
there's a shortage of house. Yeah, and people are moving here.
And it's not just Charleston. I mean it goes on
down through the valley. Well, the whole thing is Charleston. Yeah, people,
this border thing, you're going across the board, you know,
I mean Charleston has forty eight thousand people. Then you
(23:56):
cross over the river and you got another thirty thousand
added to they're really are trading area is about six
hundred and fifty thousand people. Is our trading right now,
which is the Metro Valley and Logan we go to Pikeville.
That's that's pretty much. If you're in retail, that's you're trading, right.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
We talked to Tony the Taylor appearing Zino about small
Business Saturday to Dave Allen showing five a d Live
broad to you part by Live Healthy West Virginia presented
by WVU Madison, a podcast promoting healthier lifestyles. Check avalate
this episode's wv Metronews dot com under the podcast menu.
So what small Business Saturday look like for Tony the Taylor.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
We have great promotions again. Quarter zips are hot. That's
the hot item. That's the that's the cabbage patch kid
apparently of Christmas twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
But you're not gonna get a kidney injured trying to
find one.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
We're doing a buy one, get one free on all
sweaters that day in store only on that but we
have outerwear at half price. We have great selection of shoes,
got a special selection of Johnson and Murphy's that are
seventy nine ninety nine for a dress roof, you need
a nice banner black dress, jew some other great deals
going on. You can check our website at Bestmaster Taylor
(25:01):
dot com for that and then we're ready to go.
Don't forget to come downtown for Holly Jolly Bray on
Friday of Art Walk. We are not open for this,
but so I can go out and actually enjoy it.
Some great events we have the Holiday Shopping Village going
on Slack Plaza, and you know, don't forget to stop
in my buddy at Sam's Uptown for a nice great
(25:23):
meal and a cocktail and walk around pod. It will
be an effect and it would be a great time.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
And again, you know, I had you on to talk
about your business because you're, you know, kind of up
sponsored this show, but I also wanted you to hit
on the other businesses, which you've done, because it's not
just it's not just the Tony the Taylor Show. I
mean everybody else is everybody. Everybody's taking part of it.
And again, that vibrant downtown and I think people kind
of you know, and Holly Jolly Bray has been such
(25:48):
a big part of that over the last you know,
the last holiday seas.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
I have to tell you Kevin Madison and Morgan Morrison
they work their tails off year round for this event
and every year they make it better and better and better.
And I'm pumped for the drone show that last year
was good, this year it's going to be spectacular.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah. Yeah, we had a text here for you and
that says, uh, how do you know measurements are accurate
if you're going by what someone posts on an online order.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
Well, most things we sell online are belts, shoes, sports wear.
Very rarely we get things that we were don't do
anything custom made online except for belts. We have custom
belts online and we call them and that's the way
it is, or I will go visit them. Most we
don't really sell custom shirts online or that's it's impossible
(26:35):
to do accurately.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Well, And the great thing I think about about your
store is is people can go in there and they
can shop and not you know, you guys are experts.
You and Ryan, you know you do a great job.
And you go in and you know, okay, I gotta
I got a formal event coming up. Help me. And
I know I've hung out at your store enough to
(26:59):
know that that you get a lot of that people
coming in or put somebody bringing a kid in for
a Christmas formal or something like that, and and and
they don't know. What they don't know is that they.
Speaker 7 (27:07):
Don't even weddings. You know, we do three or four
weddings weekend, which which is a huge business. We're probably
the largest tuxied to rental place in the thing. Well
we're cheaper than everybody else and we do it better
than everybody else. So it's it's uh, you know, it's
just fun. And we interview you first. We just want
to give you something. We want to make sure you
look good and feel good when you leave. And AM
(27:29):
sure event that's important, look good and feel good.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Now you're a Charleston guy, I mean, born, born in bred,
and like what I always said, you're born and bred.
When you die, you'll be Charleston dead. But uh, talk
about people always want to look back on any town
Tony and they all want to say, well this I
remember how it how it used to be, and that's okay.
People have a tendency to look back through rose colored
glasses sometimes, you know, and it's not always like It's
(27:55):
like with music. You know, all the music of the
eighties was the best of all. It really was. It
really was. I mean, but we look about it and
you know, but but talk about what it was like
and there's still a lot of positive things going on,
But talk about growing up in Charleston East End kid
and what Charleston was like. And my point is not
to say it was better then than it is now.
I'm just saying it's just different.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
It's just different. It's just the way it is. I
mean again, And my dad started the store in nineteen
seventy four and I had to go to work. I
was nine years old, and downtown was thriving. It was busy,
and it's where everything wasn't Its like every downtown in
America was like that. And then the mall was built,
and Charleston was kind of on the forefront of building
the mall downtown rather than out in the outskirts, which
(28:39):
sucked down life out of downtown. Well, this mall did
suck the life out of downtown just four or five
blocks away. However, it we stayed downtown because we're downtown.
Store men don't go to shopping malls. And we thrived
and thrived and grew and grew and grew, and then
investment came downtown professionals building these buildings rehaving them, which
(29:03):
puts people down there. And then what happens. Restaurants open
up and service stores open up and it's just a
part of retailing. Then mall started to decline in the
late nineties. It's just the reality of it all over America,
not just in Charleston. And then strips shopping centers started
opening up on the outskirts. If you go to Columbus,
(29:24):
you're right, Oh, I go to go to Easton and
go to Columbus. That's not an indoor mall. It's an
outdoor mall. And the people who owned the Town Center
when they sold their portfolio, except for the Town Center
because it was heavily in debt. The group of the
Australian Big Mall group, every mall they bought of the
twenty four that twenty five malls of twenty four they bought,
they tore them all down and turned them into outdoor
(29:46):
shopping many downtowns basically, And that's just the way it is.
It's all over the country. The Internet really, you know,
I might have hurt malls a little bit. However, what
we see now is people will shop on our store
locally on the internet and then come and pick it
up in the store and then augment their purchase and
(30:09):
a lot of a lot of larger retailers are seeing
that if you're paying attention and reading like the Wall
Street Journal about retailing and well, and.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
You're a person that is never shy to give opinions.
So I'm gonna I'm gonna ask you your opinion of
the town Center, the current State town Center.
Speaker 7 (30:26):
It is sad to me what the other way it
will ever work. It just needs to be leveled and
rebuilt into an entertainment and arts district. You're right beside
one hundred million dollar facility. You need restaurants, you need
entertainment style stores. That's the only way I work. People
who want to buy and have all these ideas, they're
(30:47):
just clueless to retail. They have zero idea what they're
doing we're thinking about. I like people who think about it,
but again their ideas are just shot.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Well. I mean, it was originally, you know, and this
has gone back and forth. We've had a commissioner Silango
and the mayor and others on to talk about this
that originally we talked about taking the town Center and
you know, making it into an aquatic center, and then
the funding you know, kind of went away. And that's
still it's still got something's still going to happen. Uh there,
But you got to understand that that mall is owned
(31:17):
by a private company as it stands right now, and
that private company, as long as they're paying their taxes
and as long as they're not, there's no you know,
there's not any major issues there. Not really a lot
of people can do. I don't understand their business model.
They've done this in other places. The whole group is
purchased malls and and let them and just let them decline.
That's what they do for tax reasons. I suppose. I
(31:38):
don't know, and I say that to say I agree
with you one hundred percent. I am a supporter of
something for that mall. That's not I mean. And to
these people that say, Tony, well, if we just put
a blank in there, it was David Busters. Uh you know,
God Blest, one of my former producers. If they just
put a David Busters, they saved them all. If we
just put a you know whatever, No, not one store
is not going to save them all. It's not about
(32:00):
it needs to be an entire, an entire entertainment complex.
What needs to be leveled. Okay, but when you have
these people that come in for these big events like
at it, Shiney and whatever. They may play a game
at six o'clock on a Friday night and not play
another one till one o'clock on Sunday. What are they
gonna do. They're not gonna sit in a hotel room.
They got to have something. Come down to Tony the
(32:21):
Taylor we do. We get tons, exactly tons of direct
business from these soccer tournaments and softball tournaments in these
large youth sports. If I may talk about the sports
complex real quick, we're we're just waiting on a federal funding.
We are waiting Shelley Moore and at the time Senator Mansion.
We have an ear mark, and these guys in Washington
(32:41):
can't get their stuff together and to get a budget done.
And when it's done, the earmark will pop up and
we will get it and then we can finish. We've
done our part. The city of Charleston in the county
has done their part, and we're just waiting for your
congress people who are douless to do their part and
that and then we'll move forward. These things just aren't
(33:02):
built overnight. In the Aquatic Center, there's a reason they're
all nonprofit because they are abhorribly expensive and the maintenance
on them is out of control.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
I can see that, and every private one has obviously.
I mean, just just do a little reading and research.
There's money pits because again they're dealing with water. I
think it'd be great, but who's going to pay for it?
Are you willing to pay? Are you willing to pay
more taxes to have that? And nobody is they're not.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
He's never shied with opinions. That's one of the reason
why you and I get along so well. I think,
all right, tell us, let's recap the small business Saturday again.
Your business is going to be closed tomorrow and Friday.
You'll open up on Saturday. But there's a lot of
activities going on downtown. Just final forty five seconds, forty
four five seconds.
Speaker 7 (33:48):
We have a Black Friday art Walk downtown Holly Jolly
Brawley Saturday, Small Business Saturday. We open at ten, close
at five, which are a long day come down, free
parking and all of the ground and all the meters
on Saturday. Also, I want to mention we're having an
Alan Edmonds and a Bras trunk show on December fourth,
a week from Thursday. It's a huge event, great deals,
(34:10):
and I appreciate you having me on here day.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
So what you're saying is you're going to suck more
of my money out of my pocket?
Speaker 7 (34:17):
Right, Actually stopped by payroll and there's four year check
to me.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Well you know you all right, I appreciate it. Text
says Weight. You both said people are coming here to shop,
but we can't support them all.
Speaker 7 (34:32):
Correct because stores don't are especially stores don't located in malls.
That's right.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
But your business is good, that's huge.
Speaker 7 (34:41):
I mean it grows every year. It grows every year.
We're the largest men's clothing store in the two hundred
mile radius.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Okay, have you back on again soon? You behaved your secated.
I have no delay on. Oh no, I told you
this morning. We started that delay at eight thirty this
morning to get ready for Tony the Tailor. Tony the
Taylor is here and again a small business Saturday, whether
it's in Charleston, whether it's in South Charleston, Hurricane or
support them all, go shop small, shop small all right.
(35:08):
The Dave Island Show on five any Line is brought
to you a part by the all New Generations Ford
of Hurricane, your family and locally owned Ford dealership Generations
providing their customers with X Plan discount pricing and the
purchase of select new Ford vehicles. You pay what Ford
suppliers pay. They're also offering zero present financing for new Fords.
Check them out today. Off the hurricane accident Online Generations
for dot Com one destination for every Generations Generations for
(35:32):
dot Com. New director of Capital Market His name is
Chuck McGill and he is in the building and we'll
talk to Chuck when we come back on the Voice
of Charleston w CCHS.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Brought to you by the Ericjtar Family Businesses. Eric Jtar
Family Businesses want to thank you for supporting local small businesses.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
I'm John Morgan and Morgan and Morgan. Have you been
injured in a trucking incident? Call today Morgan and Morgan
for the People Office, two twenty two Capital Street, Charleston.
Cases will be handled by West Virginia Licens Attorneys. The
attorney in this ad is non licensed in West Virginia.
For the People dot Com as you shop for others.
Speaker 13 (36:06):
Fourth Avenue Financial invites you to give yourself the gift
of professional financial planning. What better way to start the
new year than consolidating old four ohn ks, examining your
current investments and preparing for retirement. Call me John Burdette
at three zero four seven four six seven nine seven
seven or contact us at Fourth Avenue Financial dot.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Com Securities offer throughjnebu Co Financial Incorporated, Member Fatacific Advisory
Services offer through JABU Co Advisors Incorporated, JWO Financial, JWA Advisors,
and Fourth Avenue Financial or U affiliated entities.
Speaker 12 (36:35):
My name's Chris Miller. I'm president of Dutch Miller Automotive.
Jarrett Construction completely renovated and helped redesign Dutch Miller Kia
and South Charleston. The fit and the finish in the
quality of the project is exceptional. He has an attention
to detail and an I for that kind of stuff.
You always want to give your best to your customer.
It's just as important to him as as this to you.
If you're ever looking to build anything, I'd call Jerrett
(36:56):
Construction because you know exactly you're going to get something
excellent every single time.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Come on Chares Conuction, Dave Allum here for the all
new generations. Forward a hurricane with construction underway and the
new Fords hitting the lot each day we're providing our
customers with X plan discount price fee on the purchase
of select new Ford vehicles. This means you pay what
Ford suppliers pay. On top of these market only discounts.
We're also offering zero percent financing for new Fords. Visit
(37:22):
us today off the Hurricane accent or online at Generations
for dot Com one Destination for every Generation, Generations for.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
One Destination for Generation Zenuations.
Speaker 14 (37:34):
For your words can make a difference. Call three zero
four nine three five five zero zero eight, then leave
a message of gratitude for a veteran or right one
online at WCHS network at dot com a salute to
veterans from five eight WCCHS and Toyota Motor Manufacturing, West Virginia.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
Welcome back to the show team. Minutes away from ten.
Text says Easton does have an indoor section. That's right,
they do, and we appreciate that Tony was talking about
Easton up in Columbus that there is an indoor section,
but the majority of it is outdoors. I would think
text says, as a business owner, don't get political. You
saw what going one way did to Budweiser a few
years ago. Keep your political views to yourself. Well, appreciate
(38:20):
the text. No, Tony does too, but you just don't
know Tony the tailor just and I say that at
the best possible way. Didn't the public vote on an
aquatic center put that in the mall like promise? Well,
no they did not. Texas. How many other men's stores
are in two hundred miles with Charleston and large in
terms of sales, square footage, spirit opinion. Well, let's see.
(38:41):
I'm going to say within two hundred miles of Charleston,
I can name off the top of my head at
least at least fifteen, at least fifteen. I'm saying I'm
off the top of my head at least fifteen. I
know Tony's got a list, because you know he does
things like that, so we'll kind of get about fifteen,
I would say, But Dave Allen, that's just Tony's. If
(39:04):
I ton if I'm wrong, I know you're listening, you
can text me. But Dave Allen showing five a Eline
Brown too, bar By Husband's Pizza this month, get a large,
A two and Nitch Pepperoni pizza and an eight inch
chocolate chip cookie only twenty three ninety nine. Check at
your nearest husbands for delivery dynad or pick up a
husbands pizza dot com. There is a new director of
Capitol Markets, Chuck McGill's name, and he joins us right now.
(39:24):
Good morning, sir, welcome to the show. Good morning. Your
name is certainly familiar to those of us run here,
but give those who may not know who you are.
Give us your background.
Speaker 15 (39:33):
Sure, born and raised in Charleston. Grew up, I guess
the first in South Charleston, then the West side, and
then I'm an Eastern Connall County product. Roots duke, last
class of DuPont High School. We shut it down.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
Okay, they said, we're done afteress.
Speaker 10 (39:47):
That's it.
Speaker 15 (39:48):
So yeah, So I've my roots are in Charleston. We
came back in two thousand and nine. My wife is
from Pittsburgh and she came back with you. We had
our son here. Worked at the Charleston Daily Mel then
when the Gazette and Daily Mail emerged, was the sports
editor there, and then spent my last ten years in
collegiate athletics, first at Marshall University and for the past
fifteen months at the Mountain East Conference. So I've been
(40:10):
at the Division one, Division two level of college athletics,
so very non linear journey here. But I'm back to
you know, back home, you know. And I grew up
running around Plaza East and going to Capital Market when
it was still a recycling facility, like you know, so
you know, I understand the history there and the tradition
and the nostalgia that comes with it. And when I
(40:31):
saw it, you know, I just I went after it
with gusto.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
What was it that made that made it appealing to you?
Speaker 15 (40:37):
Yeah, I mean the the the you know, we we
took my son there when he was you know, when
he was a toddler. And you know, I think, you know,
convincing people that I'm not just a sports guy was
a thing that I was at least concerned about. The
the hiring committee seemed less concerned about it as I
went through. But you know, I'm a music guy, I'm
(40:59):
an arts guy. I love museums, I love food. You know,
my interests are varied. And you know, Capital Market for
us was you know, uh, you know, a cornerstone of
Charleston and it's where we took you know, out of town,
visited outse That's where we you know, it's it's what
we wanted when we wanted to showcase Charleston, what we
were about.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
That's where we went. I was going to say, because
whenever people come to Charleston, my experience has been and
my wife's company would say the same thing. When they
came to Charleston, they'd say, well, you know, we have
time in the evening, where do we need to go?
That was always number one. You got to go to
Capitol Market one hundred percent.
Speaker 15 (41:30):
So there's established brand there and I have an appreciation
for that nostalgia, the memories that people make, you know,
sorting through through pictures, I can see my son with pumpkins.
We went there and picked out our Christmas trees. You know,
when we lived in South Hills in Charleston, it was
always a big thing for me to have the hanging flowers,
you know, So my wife and I would go and
pick out the flowers, and you know, we'd go into
(41:53):
inside the Capital Market. We were there for an event
a few weeks ago, and my son wanted to go
in and get something from the sushi garden, you know,
so like it's just it has everything, and it's everything
that I want Charleston to be and so to kind
of be a caretaker of it, like it's a really
big deal to me.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
What is your vision for Capitol Market?
Speaker 15 (42:10):
Yeah, I mean we want to grow.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
There's challenges there.
Speaker 15 (42:14):
There's built in challenges as far as it being kind
of landlocked on all four sides with parking lots or
Smith Street. But we want to grow, find ways to grow,
find ways to engage the community more and create that
next generation of people who care about the market. You know,
that's you know, my son's thirteen years old, so I
(42:34):
want him to grow up and have children and that's
their destination on the weekends or the evenings or whatever.
So I want it to be a really family friendly
place and you know, a place where everybody goes like
you're saying, and kind of be that that gem of Charleston.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
Can you hang out with me here one second? Yeah,
because here's a shocker. We went a little bit long
with Tony the Taylor. That's fine, imagine that Tony's worth it. No,
he's not all right. I want to take a break.
I want to let you know. With the Dave Island
Show on five eighty Live is broad to part by
Morgan to Oregon, America's largest injury law firm. If you're injured,
visit for the People dot com over Chuck McGill, the
new director of Capitol Market. When we come back on
the Voice of Charleston WCCHS.
Speaker 11 (43:12):
The Dave Allen Show is presented in part by Generations
Forward in Hurricane, part of the Eric J.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
Tar family of businesses, fall is here, and the only
thing that's falling faster than the leagues in West Virginia
are the prices on Jeep Grand Cherokees at Walker, Chrysler, Dodge,
Jeep Ram in Hurricane. Right now, Geene and Ryan have
over fifty Grand Cherokees in stock, and each one of
them have been marked down. Walker has the largest selection
of Grand Cherokees in the canav Valley, and all of
(43:37):
them need new homes. Check this out. Grand Cherokee Limited
with third row seating now Walker Price with up to
eleven thousand dollars off MSRP. And you know you're going
to get the best deal possible at Walker because Gene
and Ryan built their business the old fashioned way by
making friends. There are no gimmicker games at Walker, just honest,
fair deals. So don't wait. Take advantage of these great
(43:59):
savings before old Man Winter settles into the Mountain State
for good. Take that short twenty minute drive from Charleston
or Huntington to Walker Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram just off
the Hurricane exit of I sixty four Walker Chrysler Dodge
Jeep Ram. Making friends one deal at a time.
Speaker 8 (44:14):
College basketball fans, the holiday season tips off with a
showdown in the Mountain State at the Holiday hoop Fest.
It's West Virginia versus Wake Forest Saturday, December the sixth
at the Charleston Coliseum. Get ready for a high stakes
battle filled with fierce defense, fast paced action, and that
big game energy only college hoops can bring. Tickets start
at just thirty bucks that are available now at ticketmaster
(44:36):
dot com or at the Charleston Coliseum box office. The
Holiday hoop Fest West Virginia Wake Forest where the season
heats up.
Speaker 3 (44:47):
Welcome back to the show. It is eight minutes away
from Tamaday Island show in five eighty line Brown two
part our Bridge Valley Community and Technical c College Insurance
AG is arey demand and in the state all across
the country too. Bridge Valley can help you take that
first step. Their Licensure pre Sales Licenser course prepares you
(45:07):
to sit for the state required Property and Casualty Insurance
Licensed Exam and to start your career in this ever
growing field. Checkout Bridge Valley dot edu for details Bridge
Valley Community and Technical College. Your career starts here. Big
Ley Pickley Weekly Hotline three zero four three four five
fifty eight fifty eight. Tony the Taylor Text three zero
four nine three five five zero zero, and I knew
that Tony would be listening. We had a question about
(45:27):
how many men shops were there in a two hundred
miles radius that he says independent stores within a two
hundred mile radius about nine. I was a little high
on that, so they're about nine or so within a
two hundred mile radius. Chuck McGill is here, the new
director of Capital Market. So we're getting into Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Always a big time at the Capitol Markets. Give us
an idea of some things that are playing for holidays.
Speaker 15 (45:49):
Sure, yeah, I'm coming in at the right time. The
bur months are.
Speaker 3 (45:52):
Right or the wrong time, No, I want to look
at it.
Speaker 15 (45:54):
That's always my favorite time of the year. So I'm
an October baby, So I'm a fall guy. I'm a
winner guy. But we have the Feasts of the Seven Fishes.
My first day is Monday, and we have an event
that night that's already sold out, Feasts of the Seven Fishes.
That's a that's a huge deal. And then on the
tenth is the Market Mingle, the Merry Market Mingle, So
that's the next big thing. You can go on Capitol
(46:16):
Market dot net and get tickets stills for that one.
So those are our big events, and then you know
we're just getting you know, getting the market all festive.
I mean there's there's been people painting windows, and the
Christmas trees are there, and there's you know, lights everywhere,
and of course, uh you know we're gonna go judge
Christmas trees after this, you know at Holly Jolly Braley.
(46:36):
So we're involved with that and it's just a really
exciting time to you know, dive in with with two feet.
Speaker 3 (46:42):
And you talk about and this is what Tony and
I we're talking about a little earlier about Charleston really
becoming a holiday Christmas destination. I mean between Holly Jolly
Brawley and the Light the night and just everything else
through the largest Christmas parade around that'll be next week,
and what's going on at Capital Market, and just I
(47:04):
mean there's so many things going on in Charleston at
one time. For Christmas.
Speaker 15 (47:08):
Yeah, I got my market email set up and the calendar. Candice,
the director of Market and Communications at the Capital Market,
started adding things to my calendar and I was like
flipping through and I was like, Okay, this event's that night,
this of the parades, this night the market mingles, this night,
it's loaded. And I think that speaks well of Charleston
that there's always something going on and the synergy that
(47:30):
the market has with downtown and you know, there's there's
your trolley's going around taking you from place to place,
and there's vendors and there's music, and there's something to
do every night, you know, this weekend with the tree
lighting ceremony. So I think it's really cool the vibe
and the momentum that Charleston has, especially around the holidays.
Speaker 3 (47:47):
Talking to Chuck mcgild again, who is the new director
of a Capital Market, I want to throw this in here,
this little promotion that we're going to be doing starting
next week. You can save up to sixty percent off.
This is wv Bargains won't be caught. Save up to
sixty percent off on items like certificates to Eddie's Tyron Service,
pest control services from Spotlight Pest Control, gas fireplaces from Fireside,
and patio tent rentals from Quantum, sixty percent off car
(48:10):
detailing services from Oak Citiado, Spa, jewelry certificates from pettit
jwelry tax services from Penny Pincher, certificates to Dunbar Furniture,
and more items all across the valley and across the state,
really across state lines too in our surrounding states where
we have WVRC media properties. And again it's going to
kick off next Monday. It'll run through the fifth wv
Bargains dot Com. Wv Bargains is a WVRC media promotion,
(48:32):
all right. So we talked about some of the struggles
of capital market, mainly not of your own doing but
or the market's under end, but just because you are
kind of landlocked there. But on your wish list and
I'm not saying these are going to be promises from
Chuck McGill, okay, but on your wish list, what would
you like to see?
Speaker 15 (48:50):
I think I've been really encouraged. So I've been in
Huntington for nine years, but we've come back all the
time because Charleston is my home. My mom and dad
are here, my aunts and uncles are here, cousins are here,
and what I've seen from the downtown and how you know,
a rising tide lists all boats situation, so you get
five Street and then you get short Story for example.
(49:10):
I think having the area around the market also lifted
up would benefit the market. Yeah, so I think that's
a very long term, ambitious goal. But with the ballpark
there and the light the night and all that brings
and kind of the the natural flow to the market,
if if, if the area around the market was also enhanced,
(49:32):
I think that would benefit the market a lot. With
its proximity to the interstate and the you know, the
interchanges there and the easy on and off. I would
love to see that area kind of lifted up, like
the downtown's been listed lifted up. But that's a you know,
very long way. It's outside of my control exactly exactly.
Speaker 3 (49:48):
But that's that's why we call it a wish list. Yeah,
you know, absolutely, And you're talking about being in Huntington,
I think it's amazing what they have done with Pullman
Square in Huntington because I was a student at Marshall
in the early nineteen nineties and we all remember or
the super Block. We've been talked about going back to
the eighties. They're gonna build this big thing down and
it was just promise after promise, broke it and then
lo and behold, one day Pullman Square pops up and
(50:09):
it has totally revitalized that area absolutely, And that's a
great blueprint for us to follow. And I've watched that,
you know, I went to Huntington in twenty sixteen and
was able to watch that kind of evolve over the years.
So that's that's, you know, in in game, that would
be my top goal. All right, well, Chuck, I appreciate
you stopping by the show, and I know you're going
(50:30):
to do great things over there. You've got a great
marketing director and Candaice, but you also got a great
board of directors over there. Big shout out to my
man Steve Keith and then he gu us over there.
So we'll let you get out of here and let
you go downtown and judge from Christmas trees and we'll
have you on a few more times between now and Christmas,
and of course you're always welcome here throughout not the year.
Appreciate you man. All right, thank you, Dave, all right,
thanks a lot. We're gonna transition over talking to my
man TJ. Meadows coming up in talk line at the top.
(50:53):
Hang out with me just once. Can you give me
like two or three minutes because I need to talk
to you a little bit. Okay, but I'm gonna turn
your microphone off now. How's that all right? DJ Meadows
is here? What you got on talking? It's the after show, buddy,
that's what you stayed around for, the after show, the
after party.
Speaker 16 (51:09):
A ten oh six E. Gordon Ghee joins us today.
You know, doctor Gee penned another commentary that was in
the Hill talking about college athletics.
Speaker 3 (51:17):
He's been talking more.
Speaker 16 (51:19):
Now that he's not a president, which I really enjoy.
Speaker 3 (51:22):
So we're gonna get into that with Gordon.
Speaker 16 (51:23):
We'll probably talk Thanksgiving in a host of other things
as well with him. Bridget Lambert of the West Virginia
Retailers Association on Black Friday joins us at ten thirty.
Hobby's in at eleven six. He's got issues with what
the CDC has done about Vaccine Mornings courtesy of Robert
Kennedy Junior. So we'll talk about that and I'm sure
other you know, top like, there's nothing to talk about now,
(51:45):
there's nothing going on that Hobby would want to opine about.
My buddy Mike McKenna has a great piece out. He's
a columnist for the Washington Times talking about Thanksgiving. We'll
speak with him on that. I want to pick his
brain on a few things Trump. You know, he used
to be he was in the Trump administration during the
first term, and so he's got that unique perspective as well.
I want to talk about about tariffs, I want to
(52:07):
talk about going after Comy and several other things with
Mike as well.
Speaker 3 (52:12):
All right now, Programming note, there will be no local
show of mine tomorrow and Friday. I'll be back on Monday,
but Metro News Midday is coming up later today. We'll
have a best of Metro News Midday tomorrow and then
a live show on Friday. No Amanda Baron on Friday
for Metro News Midday. I will be here. Speedy Bevans
Broadcasting Legend will be my guest.
Speaker 16 (52:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (52:31):
Pretty cool, pretty cool. I might to stick around and
just listen to a well come on in, come on in, man.
All right, we gotta go. I'll see you later today
on Metro News Midday. Until later I had to thank
for a minute. I have fun and love somebody.
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.