12/01/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Chad Story, Danny Jones, Matt Sutton

Dave talks with author Chad Story, former Charleston Mayor Danny Jones and Mayor Goodwin's Cheif of Staff Matt Sutton.

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capital city. Of course, this weekend, you know, Friday and Saturday,
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Tony the Taylor text three zero four nine three five
five zero zero eight want to welcome into the show now,
I guess we now call him author Chad's Story. Good morning, sir,
how are you doing?

Speaker 4 (02:16):
Good morning?

Speaker 5 (02:16):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (02:17):
I am doing fine, Thank you for being here. I'm
sure you've heard all of the jokes about story and author, right.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yeah, so many I was at the Holly Jelly Brawley
this past weekend. So many they thought it was truly
just alias name.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
But I have known you literally your whole life. I
can attest that your family name is story. That is
your that that's not an alias, that is your actual,
actual real name.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
And my father's name was true love story.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
That's true. That's very true. That that that's a true story. Stephanie,
by the way, Uh that's uh yeah, so uh anyway,
all right, so uh this may be a new field
to you. Were going to talk about your book that
you wrote a little bit later. But you people know
you because of you know, you've been in the world
of politics for some time, not as an elected official,

(03:04):
but you've been. You work for different people, different things
like that. So but but now you've decided to write
a book. It's an interesting and not about politics, I
mean about something. It's actually a Christmas book. So we're
going to talk about that a little bit later. But
give people your.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
Background for those who may not know, sure, I was
born and raised in Man in Logan County, and that's
how really I know, Dave. My background actually started out
working in behavioral health. I worked there for five or
six years with adults with development developmental delays, and then
I transitioned to education. I got my master's in education,

(03:38):
taught school for a couple of years, and then I
met a man named Evan Jenkins when he was running
for Congress, and we hit it off and he was
elected beat Nick ray Hall, and I went to work
on his official in his official office. I was with
him for around three and a half years, and then
I went to work for Congressman Alex Munei for around

(04:00):
four years. And now I trained congressional staffers and members
of Congress full time. But before that, truthfully, I grew
up in a huge, huge family and we didn't have
a lot of money to have a lot of means.
But the memories I have and that we've made in
Man was something I would I wouldn't trade for anything.

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But yeah, I fought around with politics for a while.
I worked on some campaigns. I mean, I remember when
in the coal fields, when being a Republican was a
scary thing. And then we transitioned, obviously in twenty fourteen
over to the Republicans taken over and when we actually
won elections, I started working full time for Congressman Jenkins.

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And how I transitioned to an author. And my job
now is just solely just random, and that's all I
can tell you. It's verry random.

Speaker 6 (04:56):
All right.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
So you've written a book and it's called Christmas in
the Mountain State, and for people like me, it's got
a lot of pretty pictures and stuff in it too,
So that's always good time. Tell us, So what made
you decide to want to write this book?

Speaker 4 (05:07):
Well, I truly wrote the book. Well, I'm gonna go
back to this a little bit. Okay, During COVID, I
was in the house like almost everyone else probably, and
I was extremely bored, and I said, it crossed my mind.
I love kids. I loved teaching school. When I retire
in a few years, I'm gonna go back to teaching school, hopefully.
So I was bored. I opened a Google drive. I

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thought about writing a children's book, and again that was
very random fault. I actually wrote the title and never
picked it up again.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Christmas in the Mountain State.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
Yeah, Christmas in the Mountain Stead. I wrote that and
never opened again. And so we fast forward a little
bit and my mother was sick. We were taking care
of her with took care of my father as well.
My mom passed away last year around October, and to
be honest, the book was written in grief. She loved Christmas,
my father loved Christmas. I love Christmas, and most of

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my brothers and sisters. It's just something that was really
still to us. We did not have much, but we
had always decorated. The house was decorated with so many things,
and it really impacted me. But I didn't really know
what to do after my mom passed, and every time
I started missing her or I would be thinking about home,
I would just pick up the book. There's a lot

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of revisions, a lot of different takes, i'll say of
this book, of different versions. But it was really wrote
in grief. But I also I love West Virginia. It's
it's a place that uh that one once you're here,
it's it's it's in your blood. So I always brag

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on West Virginia even in d C. I talk about
West Virgina all the time. In my apartment, people would
walk in and they say, oh my god, it's like
a shrine of West Virginia in this.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Apartment in d C.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
Yeah, I had triply everywhere I didn't notice it, but
everywhere you turn there's like a the map or something
about the state.

Speaker 7 (06:57):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
So I really wrote this, as I say, a love
letter to West Virginia, but also just a it's it's
dedicated to my parents, who really instilled the love of
Christmas in us.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
What's the premise of the book, I mean, take us
through it.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
Yeah, so essentially it's about a red cardinal named Jay.
So obviously the red cardinal, our state bird. I chose
a red cardinal for that reason. But also I didn't
think about this but at the time, but red cardinals
often mean are often the symbol. They symbolize your past
loved ones coming to you. When you see a Cardinals,

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it's your it's your past loved ones saying I'm okay.
And I actually had a couple of people come up
to me at my stand this weekend and I had
had an email and two emails talking about how this
book reminded them of their past loved ones because of
the red cardinal. I chose it because of the state bird.
But anyway, it's his name's Jay. That was my father's nickname.

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And he travels throughout West Virginia showcasing, showcasing everything we
have to all for all those cool places. I mean
obviously the Capital, Capital Market, Bluefield that's now designated as
a Christmas City, Snowshoe, the Greenbrier, WU. There's a lot
of symbols in there, so it truly just gives a
good snapshot of what West Virginia has to offer and

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all the cool things we have.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Please tell me there's something about Logan County in there.

Speaker 8 (08:21):
Yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
Was gonna wait until you it's not Morrisons, but it's
it's a Chief Logan State Park, is okay? Archways in there.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
The most visited daytime park in West Virginia.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
Yes, I was telling someone the other day I was
looking at the illustration. I always loved the lights, but
I didn't appreciate the lights until after I left and
came back home and I drove through the park. I'm like,
this is this is something, this is really really cool
and something we should be proud of. But Chief Logan
is in the Okay.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
I want to make sure we had some love for
the Home County in there.

Speaker 4 (08:55):
But the jay goes throughout the state. Obviously I couldn't
pick every place, but uh, there's in this book. Because
it's dedicated to my parents. I chose a lot of
things that were special to me, and that was Chief
Logan I spent. We didn't get to go on vacations
growing up. My aunt and uncle would take us to
Lake Stevens in Raleigh and that was our vacation for
the year. So Lake Stevens is in there. My grandfather.

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It talks about coal miners. I never met my grandfather.
My mom was one of nineteen kids and she had
us late in life. My brother and I.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Were one of nineteen kids, one of nineteen.

Speaker 4 (09:31):
Yeah, her mother died like when she was forty four,
and it's it's crazy. I know it's a crazy story.
I have sixty seven first cousins, if that tells you anything.
But we really we we when we were our family,
which is huge, so our grand most of a lot

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of us didn't meet the young ones. Did not meet
my grand grandfather because my mother was forty when she
had my brother and I, so I never met my grandfather.
But he's We do a page about coal miners and
we used his picture. So there's a lot of things
that's really special. My nieces and nephews' names are on
a Santa Claus list. So things that that would make

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my mom smile, my dad I put in the book
that most people wouldn't know.

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people get to the book? Where can they get it?

Speaker 4 (10:54):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Here?

Speaker 4 (10:56):
Yeah, so you can go to chadstory dot com. I
can ship it to you all sign every book from
my website that's chadstory dot com. But also you can
get it locally. It's in eight state parks. It's in
Capital Market and will there's a Willing Willing Artisan Center
the man Pharmacy, so it's still out the state. But
also you can get it from my website chadstory dot com.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Okay, And any plans to go into the schools and
maybe I do some some readings for the kids. I mean,
I would think that especially those in your home county
would would love to have a visit from.

Speaker 4 (11:29):
We have so something else about the book I didn't mention.
It has a glossary in the back. It's extremely educational.
All the places that are listed, the symbols that that
are listed. We also talked about half of McCoy trails.
All those things are listed in the back of the glossary,
so it's extremely educational. But yeah, I'm actually kicking off
a small book tour today and man in the Buffalo

(11:50):
Creek Memorial Library. We're there today and then tomorrow we're
in all of Logan, well in four of the Logan
Country schools, and then uh so I'm going to the
place where I start teaching. I'm so excited to see
this kiss. We have a big presentation for them and
they don't know it yet that most of them they're
all gonna get a book.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
So really, that's awesome. That's awesome. Well again, give us
the website, chadstory dot com. You can also pick it
up a capital market various. Is it available online anywhere?
I mean other than your website? Evident the best place
to get it is on my website website. All right,
Chad's pleasure to have you on to show. Great to
catch up with you. Man. You're doing good things, buddy,
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I have not?

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how you doing man.

Speaker 6 (15:33):
I'm doing fine.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
I'm two authors back to back.

Speaker 6 (15:36):
Is he an author?

Speaker 8 (15:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (15:37):
It just wrote me that he wrote a book that's
on my level. Danny. It's a kid's book. Okay, what's
to call Christmas in the Mountain States?

Speaker 6 (15:45):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (15:46):
And it's kids book and it's about it. It's got
a cardinal, it's got references to things from Capitol Market.
He's a Logan County guy, so he's got his references
to Chief Logan State Park and there. Of course, Chad's
very involved in politics, right, it was involved in politics.
Work for Evan Jenkins, a long time Alex Mooney.

Speaker 6 (16:01):
But he's now you see, running for anything.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
No, no, he's listening DC now and he's doing political
stuff in DC, working with different organizations in d C.
But he took time to write a kid's book.

Speaker 6 (16:11):
So he's got a d C played on. I wonder
who that was. Yeah, it has taxation without representation.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
I didn't know that I did, I don't know.

Speaker 6 (16:20):
I didn't see that. Well that's what the that's what
the all those plates say.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yeah, oh okay, yeah you're right about that.

Speaker 6 (16:26):
Yeah, they want two senators.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
And so how so how's your book doing?

Speaker 6 (16:30):
I sold them all?

Speaker 2 (16:32):
So there are no copies right now? Mm no, no,
but we have more common right, two hundred more okay?
And yeah when will those be in? Approximately?

Speaker 6 (16:43):
I say a couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
Okay, we're gonna give a time for Christmas.

Speaker 6 (16:46):
You know, yeah, they'll be first place, shooting by Miss
Taylor Books. Now they're on Amazon, but I want to
caution you on something. Okay, Amazon, they got a book
they're selling for thirty five dollars. I think it's all
black and white. Okay, I'm not sure because we're having

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terrible communicating with them, because you're gonna have to pay
more if you want my copy, which is color, with's
selling here for thirty I'm losing money on it. But
they'll have four different copies of the book.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
Okay. Well, and I'll tell you the pictures are a
big part of the book.

Speaker 6 (17:35):
I mean I think they are.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
I mean, if you ever went to your restaurant downtown,
I mean, that's one of the things that people were
always drawn to, was the all the pictures you had
hanging on the wall. Many some of those are also
in the book, with others that I had never seen before.

Speaker 6 (17:48):
If you buy it off Amazon, I pay the money
and get the best copy and I don't make any
more money. I mean I don't make any more money
on Alizon Amazon. You know it's laughable. I am embarrath
today how little it is.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
But it's also a necessity though, if you want to
sell both.

Speaker 6 (18:12):
If you want to sell books, yeah, sure, all right.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
So since you were on last week, Danny tragedy in
DC involving the two National Guard members from West Virginia.
Sarah Berkstrom of course died from her injuries, Andrew Wolf
still fighting for his life. Still any thoughts from you
on that other than it was a tragedy, We know that,
but any thoughts from you.

Speaker 6 (18:33):
Twenty year old girl. I just can't imagine. I've got
a nineteen year old son. I've got one that's getting
ready to turn eighteen. And of course Jared at the
nineteen year old, he's at vm I, he's military. She's
just she could have been my daughter, could have been

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your daughter.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
Well, and then listening to the people talk about her.
There's been candidlight visuals held in her native Webster County,
but she lived in Nicholas County. That's where she was working.
And so we've interviewed different people. I know Jeff actually
went to the one of the Candidit visuals and to
talk to some people. People always talk, at least for
the most part, warmly about people when they pass, but

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you can also tell when it's genuine and when it's not.
And hearing the interviews on the morning news as I
was driving in this morning, Danny, the people that Jeff
had talked to, it seems like that this girl was very,
very popular, very well liked. She was a prom the
queen of the prom and things of that nature. There

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was some video I saw from one of the TV
stations this morning over the weekend when she apparently had
developed a friendship with a young like a as much
of a friendship as you can develop with a two
year old, you know. And the mother was speaking at
the visual, the mother of the two year old, and say,
you know, how do you how do you explain to

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a two year old that your friend's not coming back?
It's real life stuff.

Speaker 6 (20:06):
Man. I don't know. I don't know about the National
Guard being these cities. I just don't know. The mayors
don't want them. Yeah, if that might be enough for me.
I know, the Marines don't belong there, that's not what

(20:29):
their mission is.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
It is worth noting know that these two people volunteered
to go there because they were sent there and then
and now it's basically a volunteer thing. But they volunteered
to go there, and that doesn't make it any less tragic.
I'm not saying I know, but I am saying that
that they did volunteer to go there.

Speaker 6 (20:46):
I understand that, but the mission.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
Now I get on. You and I are on the
same page.

Speaker 6 (20:51):
You've got the president and the mayor at odds over this.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
So if this were to have happened in Charleston, all right,
when you were mayor, and let's say that Charleston had
the horrific crime rates and things that DC and some
of these other cities have had. If the President of
the United States contacted Mayor Danny Jones and said we're
sending National Guard troops in, what would you have done them?

Speaker 6 (21:17):
I'm a different kind of mayor. I was just different
on that. I say, if if our crime is that
bad and you're ready to let us have the resources
of the national Guard, national Guard can't arrest anybody, I'd
say send them. But now we're dealing with mayor that

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don't want them. Right, And even though Mayor Bowser is
that what is that or not, she's had to admit
that the crime's gone down since they've been there.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
I was very interested in watching one of the press conferences,
and it may have been Thanksgiving morning that I saw it.
And she was listening to the officials from the Trump
UH organization or the judge of Japiro and and Cash
Mattel was there, and just the expression on her face

(22:14):
when she was saying, you know, when the judge was saying, well,
you know, crime is out of control and you know,
uh and uh and we had to do something, and
that that's your city. I mean, I'm not saying that
she's right or wrong, but I'm saying that's that's your city.
I mean, if you were mayor, you probably wouldn't take
too kindly of you know.

Speaker 6 (22:31):
Now I might step up and say something.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yeah, I know you would.

Speaker 5 (22:36):
Up.

Speaker 6 (22:38):
Now you've got him, like the mayor of Chicago. I mean,
he's he's incompetent. Johnson is his name. I believe Brandon
somebody he's a mayor of ok He's completely incompetent and
he Uh. There's one part of Chicago there's bad. Most

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of Chicago is really neat.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
Well, I mean, isn't that true of any city? I Mean,
for the.

Speaker 6 (23:07):
Most part, Inglewood is bad. It's just California. No in
they don't know Chicago. It's a part of Chicago, and
it's you know, it's just bad. And there are people
that live there and I've seen this on YouTube where

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they have these these natives of people that live in
Inglewood are really getting on the mayor. They want the
National Guard. He doesn't want it. Politically, they don't want it.
Pritzker and and people talk about putting Pritchzecker in the

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White House. Do you know how broke Illinois is? You
have any idea? They have the worst. But between them
and New Jersey, they have the worst pension deficit of
any state. Of their pensions for government workers, they're the
worst there or New Jersey one of the two, it'd

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be a tough it'd be a tough competition.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Let me ask you, Danny, your opinion of the way
the President is handling the death of the National Guard folks.
Of course, he invited the families of both to come.
There were some talk that he said he would consider
going to the funeral. I don't. I don't think that's
going to happen. But he has said he would invite
the families of both of the one that was killed

(24:38):
and one that distilling. He would invite the families. They
are not sure whether they would go or not, but
he said he would invite them. But there's been many
people that have said the way he has handled this
is doing what Trump does, which is making it all
about himself.

Speaker 6 (24:52):
Well that's not unusual.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
I mean, Donald, in my opinion, Donald Trump has not
changed one bit from Donald Trump's citizen to Donald Trump politician.
I mean, this was who Donald Trump was long before
he ever came down that escalator.

Speaker 6 (25:06):
Yeah, he wants to, and he does want to make
it about himself, but you have to think, what if
it was President Obama or President Biden, they might do
the very same thing.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
I don't and that's not me being part of it.

Speaker 6 (25:26):
Let's forget Biden. Okay, how about how about President Obama.
Do you think they were to invite him to the
White House?

Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yeah? Yeah, oh, I think I think he probably would,
and I think Reagan would have too. But I'm saying
the way the statements that they've made and the thing
I mean, I guess I shouldn't be surprised at the
things that Donald Trump says, you know, because he's Donald Trump,
and that's what he says, but just some of the
things what he said about Pritzker, you know, calling Tim

(25:56):
Walls the R word that you can't say anymore, you know, Yeah,
I can't see Obama or Reagan doing something like that.

Speaker 6 (26:05):
Well we have. He has normalized vulgarity public public figures.
Politicians are now using it. And Nancy Mays used it
the other night on on a few weeks ago on
on Bill Maher. I guess I realize that's a different format.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
Well, yeah, that's well, but I mean, but.

Speaker 6 (26:30):
She's running for governor South Carolina. I'm not sure i'd
have said that choose the up bomb. I mean, I'm
not sure it's a good idea.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
What and what we're learning now about the person that
that committed this act, he appears to have been, you know, radicalized.
They said he's got major issues. You know, his work
permits all expired. Depression, that word has been thrown out there.
He would disappear for days at a time and come back,

(27:00):
and you know, and then of course we're all playing
the blame game right now. You know, the pointing, well
it was it's because of Biden that he was here.
But but he was there, you know, the Trump administration
had some involvement in this, and on the TV talk
shows over the weekend. I eventually just had to turn
it off yesterday morning because it was just one side,
you know, you know, the what about ism and so

(27:21):
it's this person's fault, it's that person's fault. Whatever. Bottom
line is two people too, West Virginians lost their lives.

Speaker 6 (27:29):
Yeah, yeah, and.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Well I'm sorry, I'm sorry. One person lost their lives,
so they defy I'm sorry.

Speaker 6 (27:38):
Yeah, one person. Yeah, but I there's so much noise
out there, you know that you you uh, it's hard
to get through to it, and people talk over each other.

(28:03):
Did you watch this week yesterday?

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (28:07):
Yeah, I miss Sarah is Core. Yeah. I'm a fan.
I'm a fan of serious. I'm a big fan, and
I like I like Chris Christie.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
I'm a fan of Donna Brazil. I don't agree with
her ninety thing, but I loved it. She's entertaining.

Speaker 6 (28:22):
I told you about meeting her in the Atlanta She
is wonderful and I read her book. You know, she's
a daddish girl. She likes Scotch, you know, and she
she's she's a wonderful person. If you ever meet her
in public, walk up and say elo to her, okay,

(28:43):
and and she is, h were you in the Were
you in the military. I said, yes, ma'am, I was
in the Marine Corps and I was went to Vietnam.
She said, well, thank you for your service. And I said,
I'm also the mayor of Charleston, w Virginia. Well kind
of wide. I can't remember what she said, but it

(29:05):
was they's not a nicer berth out there.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Kind of give us off that vibe. If I had
to guess, you know, yeah, I like her.

Speaker 6 (29:12):
Now. I like Chris Christy, He's fun to listen to.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
I like I like Christy and Prince previous feels like
the kind of guide that probably got picked on a
lot in school, that you distanced yourself from at a party.

Speaker 6 (29:23):
Just to say, I know, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
All right, Danny, we gotta leave it there. I gotta
bring Matt Sutton in.

Speaker 8 (29:30):
All right?

Speaker 2 (29:30):
When are you now? You're gonna be gone from us,
is what you have to remind me when you're not
going to be here.

Speaker 6 (29:35):
I'll be here next week.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
You'll be here next week. Danny Jones, appreciate you man,
thank you, thanks a lot. But Dave violand showing five
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(32:15):
a real champion for West Virginia and the military. Texas
David Goodwin for the Cowboys last Thursday is a longtime
fan of the Cowboys. There are two things to remember
when Super Bowl tarks talks start. Number one, let's see
what they do next week. And number two, there's plenty
of time left for them to blow it. No no
comments out of you, Matt Sutton. But that text is
not incorrect. Texas old device of Danny popping up with

(32:37):
what about Obama? Says a text, Well, I don't think.
I think we were just talking about the difference the
ways that people would would handle it.

Speaker 7 (32:45):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
Texas. The former mayor of Charleston calling the mayor of
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Now in for the mayor this week, it is Matt Sutton,
the chief of staff. Ain't doing man, That's a heck
of a read day.

Speaker 6 (34:29):
Man, that was.

Speaker 11 (34:30):
That was impressive. I gotta be honest with you. That
was he took a minute and a half and just
went straight into it. I never really saw you take
a breath. So every now and then you get to
see you do radio work right.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
Every now and there, right every now and hope I
passed the audition. Now that's going good. I think you're right.
With the warm wedge.

Speaker 11 (34:46):
I don't know why that term keeps popping up, but
when the text I got this morning, that's what they.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
Called it as well. They were the warm wedge, and
it's what There's two things meteorologists will tell you. It's
this warm wedge that sets up in the Canaw Valley
that keeps a lot of us from getting the big
snows okay, and which is fine with me because I
detested okay.

Speaker 6 (35:05):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
But people also say it's the uh uh, it's the
ghost of carbide, you know, that keeps the man with
their away. I don't know what it is, but but look,
it is going to be slick in some areas tomorrow,
so use caution because we're the meteorologist. Tell us we're
gonna have uh so you're gonna of colder temperatures. We're
gonna have cold rain and there's a possibility that it
could turn in and it is definitely going to snow tomorrow,

(35:28):
but it looks like it's going to be too warm
to stick. Famous last words and the famous last words.
But you guys in the city, you'll be ready for
it regardless.

Speaker 11 (35:35):
We're putting the we're putting the spreaders on right now.
So that's the that's what's going on today. We won't
be doing leaf pick up today and tomorrow just because
we're getting the trucks ready for the snow.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
You know, same same weather report you got.

Speaker 11 (35:47):
But you know, I don't think the last note we
got a couple of weeks ago what it's supposed to
be as bad. So you know, we just we prepare
for the worst and hope for the best. Well, and
it's here to be safe.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
Today is the first day of December. It's meteorological winter,
is what they tell Let's because the first day of
winter isn't officially till a few weeks from now, but
from the meteorologist, today is the first day of winter.
So okay, there you go. I learned I learned that
by watching Brian Hughes so there you go. Well we'll
fact check it.

Speaker 8 (36:14):
All right.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
So do you have a good Thanksgiving?

Speaker 11 (36:16):
I had a great Thanksgiving, had family in town, so
it was a nice a nice Thursday, and then Friday
and Saturday, just hanging out with all my close friends
in downtown Charleston.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
I was gonna say, yeah, I'm gonna talk about Small
Business Saturday a little bit because I happen to be
in Charleston, a rare Dave Allan appearance in Charleston on
the weekends. But but but now I was. I was
in Charleston on on Saturday, and I had to had
to go harassed Tony to Taylor a little bit, you know.
I mean, and I know the other stores did really
well too. At one point around eleven o'clock, you couldn't

(36:51):
have not gotten another person at Tony's shop. Yeah, I mean,
that's how many. That's how many people were there. And
uh and I did. I went back home to Tay's
Valley and went to an event at Valley Park in
an area thirty four. Looks like Small Business Saturday was
a pretty pretty big success.

Speaker 11 (37:07):
Yeah, I mean, we I've heard only great things, I think,
you know, and I'll give Tony the credit he deserves.
You know, Tony works hard into marketing that day, and
that he was the first.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
He'll tell you, yeah, because Tony loves to talk about him.

Speaker 6 (37:18):
So I know.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
Tony was the first merchant in Charleston to take part
years and years ago.

Speaker 11 (37:25):
Yeah, but I think, I mean, even even leading up
to it, I think a lot has to do. There's
a you know you, I heard you and Mary Jones
talking about a sort of the political side of thing
of all the noise out there were The same thing's
true with with shopping and retail right now.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
There's a lot of noise to get through.

Speaker 11 (37:37):
There's every other ad on Facebook is by this hoodie,
buy this white shirt. By that I mean, so to
be able for a small business to get through right
now is very difficult to do. And we have a
lot of really good ones who know how to market
themselves and take advantage of that. And I think that
that showed this weekend as they and they had they
had successful days. It's great to hear the same thing
out in the valley because you know what we want
and we tall we say this all the time. If

(37:59):
you're in if you're in another city, if you want
to go from one part of Columbus to the other.
That's basically one from Charleston to Barbersville, right, I mean,
so we want people up and down the I sixty
four corrid or going to all these businesses because they
make a day out of it, and that's that's beneficial
to everybody.

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to town, the football Championships Friday and Saturday. Yeah, I'm
really excited about it.

Speaker 11 (38:48):
I think it's it looks like it's gonna We're gonna
get good football weather. And I know the I talked
to Timbrady over the weekend. I know they're prepared and
ready and ready for everybody coming to town.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
And I think it was it was good.

Speaker 11 (38:59):
There were a couple It's not really my area of expertise,
but there are a couple of surprises in terms of
who's coming down.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
So I think that's good.

Speaker 11 (39:05):
It's always fun, and I think they do a really
good job or I know they do a really good
job over there taking care of the kids and their
families when they come to town. So really excited about it.
We've loved having the football championships. We loved having cheer championships.
We had volleyball, then cheer and then heading into football,
which has been a great few weeks for state high
school championships in Charleston with football sort of being the

(39:28):
end of it for this season at least. And we're
really excited about it because it does bring a lot
of people into the city. It brings a lot of
people downtown. It also takes a lot of people. I know,
the biggest days of the year last year over the
ballpark for like the night we're during the state high
school FOOTBA championship, so I know they're excited about.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
It well, and we always want to see the local
teams in it, you know, but there's something to be
said too from the ones that are coming from far
away that may not normally, normally wouldn't be coming from
the Eastern Panhandle or the Morgantown area or whatever, it
may not be coming to Charleston and to be able
to go down and see the trees downtown or go

(40:04):
to uh to the Yeah, we like like tonight when
we won the high school championships.

Speaker 11 (40:09):
No matter what it is, you look at it and again,
whatever teams come come, congratulations to them. But from the
city's perspective, and I know the cv B, we like
a good mix, you know, having a couple of local
teams we know will be big ticket sales days and
people will be there and you'll see a lot of fans,
and then having you know, those who come in to
travel to Charleston who aren't usually here, staying in hotels
and visiting for the first time. We like to have
that mix, so and I think that's always a good

(40:31):
balance because you really want a it's fun when the
local teams are in it because we all know what
your cheer for them. But at the same time, we
do like people to experience Charleston and stay in our
hotel rooms, eat our restaurants.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
And the ones that and let's face it, I mean,
the ones that are coming from far away are more
than likely not going to just come for their game
and leave. I mean, at least if they don't spend
the night, they are going to grab some dinner. They
are going to and we encourage all of those people
to go to light the night, to go downtown and
see what you got going on, shop some of these
local businesses while you're here as one.

Speaker 11 (41:00):
Absolutely I mean and again, like I said, that's the
key is we want people to come to town. We
want them to stay as long as they want to stay.
And not only that, but what we like when we
get these when we get these championships, is people do
get to see what's going on. And maybe it is
a couple hours away. I know Morgan Town's in it,
right so there I'll use them an example. They are
a couple hours away, two two and a half hours away,
depending on how you like to drive it.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
But if they have a good time in Charleston.

Speaker 11 (41:22):
That's an easy you know, weekend, bring the kids back down,
go go downtown if you don't have time, go over
the ballpark, shop local, do all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
And that's an easy trip if people get to experience
Charleston once.

Speaker 11 (41:32):
The one thing we know about it is is we
can get them to come back, which the hard part
is getting to come here first.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
And you got their Mountain your basketball team, yep, that's
on Saturday as well. So they're playing Wake Forest. It's
Kyle Seeman Convention Center.

Speaker 11 (41:42):
Yeap on Saturday. I think there are a handful of
tickets left. I certainly wouldn't wait till Saturday. I think
they opened some more tickets up, so I think there's
still a few tickets left for them.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
I mean, that would be really cool if people would
could come down to see their local team and then
take in them out in their game. Why if you
talk about somebody, you know, a school that's maybe an
not from the Morgantown area, but somebody that's you know
coming in too, you know that may not get a
chance to see their team play, and the Mountaineers too.

Speaker 11 (42:07):
Yeah, I mean I think it's again, it's in and
the Marior says, at all the time, it's tons of
things to see and do, and that's what we look
for in Charleston. So having them all together works out
really well. You know a lot of times and you
and I talked about this, and I know you've talked
about it with Tim. People always say, well this you know,
this day is my event. No, we want multiple events,
things going on at the same time so we can
make an entire experience for people. That's really what sets

(42:30):
us apart when people look at destinations to travel is
having tons of things to see and do, and that's
what we're building to and this weekend will be a
perfect example of that.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
All right, I think we've got a call for you,
mister Sutton. You're the man, so seventy go ahead, you're
on the air, A circle ahead, Yeah, yeah, you're on here,
go ahead.

Speaker 5 (42:48):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (42:50):
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I talked to the council lady and she says she
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council meetings, and it's been there for a long time,

(43:12):
so in needs pay paved or passed from the Odell
ramp all from last morning to Lesia Street. I just
wonder if you could put that on your menu you.
I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
Yep, I appreciate that.

Speaker 11 (43:23):
We'll mark it down on our notes and make sure
we have it. Have our engineers go take a good
look at appreciate the information.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
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Chief of staff Matt Sutton is here. An we mentioned
the Christmas parade.

Speaker 11 (47:02):
Matt, Yeah, so it's December the eleventh, next Thursday, not
this Thursday. Next Thursday. Start at seven pm. But if
you want a good spot, i'd get down there about six.
It's going to come a lot and get down there. Now,
come to a little bit early, get something to eat,
and then get out, get out into the street about
six o'clock.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
So yeah, it's really exciting. It's a really fun day
in town.

Speaker 11 (47:19):
And you know a lot I know, there are a
lot of great Christmas parades that go on throughout the
entire community, and you know, catch as many as you can.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
But we really are excited about the parade.

Speaker 11 (47:28):
This year, we were at about one hundred and twenty
five entries, though I think we're a little bit above
that right now.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
So it's going to be really excited.

Speaker 11 (47:34):
We've got a lot of youth groups, a lot of
kid groups in it this year, and that's what makes
it really fun is when the kids get to go
out and have a good time. So we'll start, well,
the prep's already begun we'll start weather monitoring here soon
and make sure everything's going to be okay. But no,
it's a really fun time I think, you know, having
kicked off the holiday season this weekend with Holly Jolly
Brawley and everything downtown Friday and Saturday night, everything going

(47:56):
over to the ballpark and then the Christmas Parade. I
do want to mention I saw some comments on Facebook.
The Christmas trees and the light show and everything stay
in Slack Plaza and downtown Charleston throughout the entire holiday season,
so I know some folks I saw were a little disappointed
that only lasted two days.

Speaker 2 (48:12):
The kickoff event only last two days.

Speaker 11 (48:14):
Yeah, trees stay up all all season and come down
right after the first of the year, so it is
something to come down to. It was a really great
time this weekend. A little bit cold, but that's okay.
It's Christmas time.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
And how many trees do you have done there ally Broadley?
One sixty? No, that's not right somewhere in there, because
I had the mayor on the midday show last week
and she talked about how it started with you know,
what was it like ten twelve something like that.

Speaker 11 (48:36):
Yeah, yeah, I think it's about about one hundred and
fifty or so now, and I mean.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
Spread out throughout.

Speaker 11 (48:41):
It's all all city Center, Slack Plaza, all up broadly
walk Away into Lee Triangle. It was just a really
great event, and it's what's really nice about it. And
I'm not, you know, nobody who ever accused me of
being a social butterfly. So this sounds a little bit weird,
but you know, when I went out Friday and walked around,
I didn't really even know anybody, and that was not
an that's just because it's a lot of different people

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that come to town.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
I know, it's a lot of people who used to
live here who come back and be with family, or
folks who come in from out of town to visit.

Speaker 11 (49:07):
It's not your you know, usually you go to events
in town and you you know, Charleston's a small place, Westernian,
small place.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
You know a lot of folks.

Speaker 11 (49:13):
It was good to see a lot of people that
you don't normally see it events, and I think that
was great. I know, the mayor talk to a couple
of folks from out of town, one couple from Texas,
another another in from Michigan, another in from Ohio. My
cousin lives over in Lexton, Kentucky, but it's a holiday
tradition to them to go to Holly Jolly Bradley. So
it is nice to get to see a lot of
people who from out of the area come downtown because,
like we talked about before, it's just getting them here,

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getting them into our shops.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
The vendor market was great. So it was a lot
of fun.

Speaker 11 (49:39):
That'll lead us into the Christmas Parade on December eleventh,
starting at seven pm, and really really excited. I just
got a text one hundred and sixty four Christmas teah. Yeah, yeah,
so's It really is a magical time in the city
and a lot of fun even for you know, somebody
like me who doesn't.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
Head out a lot. It's just it's just a lot
of fun. I get to see everybody and get to
see all the kids, really excited. Show is awesome. Capital
Market is bumping on Saturday to My wife and I
were at Capital Market Saturday, had lunch over there and
it was it was it was bumping too. Texas. Who
controls the stop lights on the Iowa Street and West
Washington Street intersection, It's ridiculous waiting for three minutes at

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a red light at five am, but no other traffic.
There has to be adjustable timing or sensor, so the
wait isn't so long. Say it again, all right, Iowa
Street and West Washington Street intersection. Okay, yeah, we'll take
a look at it.

Speaker 11 (50:29):
I mean, state controls stop lights and the timing, but
we can make requests to him.

Speaker 2 (50:32):
So yeah, we've got that. This is an issue that
happens in other cities too. A big shout out to
Mayor Edwards and Hurricane because he gets a lot of
complaints on social media about that and a lot of
times these things are they are controlled by the state,
whether it's a road project or whether it's stop lights, whatever,
but the city can make requests, can put a request
in on it. So you have counsel tonight. We have

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counsel tonight, very light counsel tonight.

Speaker 11 (50:55):
Oddly enough, we you know sometimes to where we have
the you know, the open meetings law. We got to
publish the agenda a certain time before, so when you
were off Thursday and Friday, we got to publish on Monday,
so we didn't get to get some bids in.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
It's time to publish. So we've got one item on
the agenda.

Speaker 11 (51:08):
We've been working with counsel Councilwoman Caitlyn Cook, Counselman Joe Jenkins,
Counselman Chad Robinson, and the mayor have been working on
an ordinance to prohibit fireworks in public parks. So we're
gonna run that this week, try to get ahead up
for New Year. So that's the only item on the
agenda to night, so we'll see how it goes.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
Matt, I was always I appreciate you being here, man,
I absolutely appreciate you. And if I don't see you
before Christmas, which I probably will have a married Christmas,
but you'll be around at some point.

Speaker 11 (51:33):
I'll be around. You know where to find me. But
so if they let me out of my office every
now and then, we'll just hang out with us for
a little while if you want. DJ Meadows, Mister Wilson
is back right on.

Speaker 2 (51:42):
Hold on, hold on. Got a quick text for you.
What is the status of the Hilton brand hotel that's
supposed to go on the former secret site. Her plans
were submitted many months ago. Nothing's happening in the developers
apparently never followed through with any construction project in Charleston.
So let's start with that real quick. Hilton brand hotel.

Speaker 11 (51:58):
Plans have been submitted of the City Planner's Office Engineer Department.
I know they gave some feedback to and had some
more communication with, But I also know that developer has
a legal matter right now with the owners of the
mall that I think they're working themselves through in order
to fully progress forward.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
Gotta leave it there, mister Meadows, quickly, what you got?

Speaker 10 (52:18):
Gabe Markel, Webster County High School Principal ten O six,
ten thirty three. Eric Nelson was State revenue numbers hoppy
in House eleven O six.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
All right, I'll see you later today. Till then, have fun.
I love somebody.