12/11/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Jeff Martin, Larry Pack, West Virginia Symphony

Jeff Martin from the Alban Theater in St. Albans, State Treasurer Larry Pack, and people from WV Symphony.

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if you'd like more information. Thursday edition of the show
one step closer to the weekend. However, when you look
at the weather forecast, that may not be a good thing.
Little snow flurry or two here in the Charleston area,
actually some snow squalls in some areas. We get some
reports of some traffic conditions of the work less than
ideal out on one nineteen about an Alum creek and

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things of that nature. There's also a major accident in
Huntington on I sixty, more like a six to eight
car pile up down there. Otherwise it's going to be
kind of quiet today during the evening hours, which is
good news for the Charleston Christmas Parade, but then it's
going to turn ugly overnight and for the morning commute,
with more snow on the way throughout the day tomorrow
and a lot more snow is what they're saying Saturday

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night in the Sunday. So there's that coming up later
on the show. State treasure Larry Pack will stop min
We're going to talk about some things related to the
Treasurer's office, but he's on a bit of a different
mission today talking about a reunion of sorts first East
Bank High School, so we'll talk to the treasure about that. Plus,
the folks from the West Virginian Symphony are going to
stop by, and your calls and texts are welcome to

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let you know now about an upcoming show that is
going to be happening at the always spectacular Albun Theater
in Saint Auban. Jeff Martin's here to talk about it. Jeff,
good morning, welcome to the show.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
Hey, good morning, glad to be here. I'm happy to
see you again. It's been a while, but a while.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Great to have you in the studio. It's congratulations on
the new dog by the way, thank you. Uh he
brought his dog with him today and uh and that's
it's pretty cool. What's the dog's name? Jud jud Okay,
I got to ask a story. Where'd the name come from?

Speaker 4 (03:16):
Okay, So I had a dog before who was named
Creed and he was named after the family from pet
Cemetery by Stephen King and Judd was the neighbor. So okay,
I stuck with a theme, keeping keeping that theme going. Allright,
let's talk about this production that you got going on
at the Album Theater. What is it?

Speaker 3 (03:30):
And tell me all about it.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
I can do that. So we're doing Inspecting Carol. It
opens tomorrow. If you want to get tickets, and I
highly suggest you do, go to the Alban Arts Center
website and those tickets are They were doing Friday, Saturday,
Sunday this weekend and next. So, like I said, the
show's Inspecting Carol. It is a really really funny show

(03:53):
with a great ensemble cast, and it's about a local
theater troupe that's putting together their annual production of a
Christmas Carol, and everything that could go wrong goes wrong,
and so chaos and sues. They're being always.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Love it when you say chaos and.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
Sus chaos and zues, I mean, you know what more
fun can you have when that happens. So an inspector
from the government, from the NEA, the National Endowment for
the Arts is supposedly coming to watch to see whether
or not they're going to get their money. And if
anybody has ever dealt with local theater troops, you know
that every dollar is important. So they're freaking out. They're

(04:32):
trying to accommodate who they think is the inspector, and yeah,
so everything just goes off the rails.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
I'm not familiar with this production. Is this pretty I mean,
I mean this other place is pretty pretty popular production.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
Yeah, it came out in the early nineties. I think
the first show was in Seattle, if I'm not mistaken,
and so it's been done a few times around the country.
I can't think of any like major you're you know,
like off Broadway or anything, but I know it's it's
a lot of local places do it, local theater troops
obviously because of the subject matter. So yeah, it seems

(05:10):
to be popular. I hadn't heard of it either until
until you know, auditions for it, and it's just hilarious.
I as soon as I read it, I was like,
oh wow, because there's so much there's there are great
jokes in there, but there's a great physical comedy as well,
and and it was a blast doing it, so it
should be very entertaining.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
Who are some of the other folks from the area
that are going to be in the production.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
Jeff Okay, so Jeff Bukovinski is in it. I know
Jeff does a lot of local productions. Stuart Frasier's of
course the director. Oh wow, Why am I like suddenly
like that on me?

Speaker 2 (05:49):
No?

Speaker 4 (05:49):
No, that that was like, I'm I've been thinking of
their character names so much.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
But I'm like, what you should do? You should?

Speaker 4 (05:59):
I'm so alright, Yeah, there are several and if any
of you are listening, I do know your actual names.
It's all.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
It's all good. We want people to buy it to
the characters more than the individuals anyway. But the bottom
line is there's a lot of actors in his play,
Jeff that people in the Canal Valley are going.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
To know the guy. I've acted with several of them before,
we've worked together or seen them and other things, so
you'll definitely recognize many of the faces. So we do
have the young man that's playing tiny Well Luther and
then tiny Tim within the play is that he's never

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acted before. This is his first time doing it and
it's been fun, you know, watching him kind of helping,
and everybody's been so great about giving tips and working together.
It's it's been a really fun show. I've enjoyed it.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
Now, I've known you for some time and you've done
a lot of different things in your life. Why acting,
I mean, because you've had a lot of me You've
done You've had many hats over the years, and I
didn't know that you were into the acting. Thing. That
said something that I learned today. But what is it
about doing these productions? It appeals to you.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
So I started acting when I was maybe around ten
or so, in church productions and like church plays and
skits and then small school productions or skits and whatnot,
and I just I loved it, and I intended initially
at least, to try to pursue acting as a career,

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and of course, you know, it's insanely difficult to break
in to actually make money or make a career of it.
So I kept doing stuff and taking acting classes and
things in college, and then started working in the political arena,
where you know, I did most of my work, and
you know, minus being in the military. Like you said,

(07:49):
many hats.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
But thank you for your service, by.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
The way, Oh absolutely, it was my pleasure to do it.
So I you know, just did things over the years.
I didn't act for several years when I was in
the army and things, and then when I moved back here,
well I moved back here in twenty fourteen, but in
twenty twenty a friend of mine asked me to be
in a Shakespeare production and I was like, well, I

(08:13):
haven't really acted in several years, but why not. And
I did it and immediately it was like, oh, yeah,
this is I remember how much I love doing this.
And so I've done a few shows every year since
since then.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
So I think, sometimes, Jeff, I think they forget that
they don't think about Charleston, and I mean the Kanaha
Valley in general, but there's always something going on production wise,
play wise, you know that for a theater. There's always
something going on in Charleston everywhere from the you know.
And we're going to talk to the symphony a little
bit later on, and I know that's totally different. But
my point is that we have a very thriving art

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scene in general here in the Kanahua Valley.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
Yeah, we really do. And that was something that was
in this present when I was younger. I mean, you
had the bigger ones obviously, but over the last few
years it looks like across the state, even not just
not just the valley, but that there are a lot
more productions, a lot more regular shows instead of just
one or two a year. And I, you know, I

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try to go out and do do whatever I can.
I do some stuff with a small troop called tip
Jar Theater, and we do some dramatic readings and Celtic
calling and things like that. And we formed from a
group that had worked together on the Shakespeare Place. So yeah,
there are plenty of options for folks to get involved,

(09:32):
even if they don't want to act. You know, we
always need plays, always need others to help in whatever capacity.
They can.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
And the behind the scenes is just as important as
the people in front of the camera.

Speaker 4 (09:43):
Oh absolutely, absolutely, in some ways more important.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
I said camera met Kurt and I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (09:48):
I didn't even catch that, but yeah, so yeah, and
the Albans has some productions and auditions coming up too,
So while you're on there getting tickets, check it out
and audition for something, even if you've never done it before,
or you know, try it out and you might find
a new hobby or passion.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
There's I mean, I was on the website looking around
before the interview today, Jeff, and there's all kinds of
things going on, not just during the Christmas season, but
throughout the year. I know Landal's bringing his home for
the Holidays tour there here soon as well, so there's
always something going on, all right, give us the info
on the on your particular production, get hit it again
the time the dates tickets go.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
Yes, so we open tomorrow. We have Friday Saturday Sunday
shows this weekend and next the eight o'clock Friday Saturday
two o'clock Sunday. Tickets are on the alban ArtCenter dot com.
And the show is inspecting Carol. It's a play within

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a play about a local theater troop putting together their
annual production of a Christmas Carol when everything goes wrong.
I play Phil in the play and then Bob Cratchit
in the Christmas Carol part of it, and I'm kind
of a jerk, and I mean that in character, even
though you know some might say, yeah, we know that.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Well, I'm sure you'll do great man, Great to have
you here on the show. We wish you the best
of luck with everything in the production, everything else you're
doing in life. Jeff mart appreciate you being here.

Speaker 4 (11:13):
Body, thanks a lot, glad to be here. Thanks.

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studio this morning. Good morning, start, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 4 (14:08):
Hey, good morning, how are you.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
I am doing fine. We're going to get some things
in the Treasure's office a little later, but I want
to talk about an event that you are going to
be part of later in this month that has to
do with east Bank.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
Oh, yes, absolutely, you know this.

Speaker 5 (14:19):
It's interesting in life, you wear a lot of different
hats of different seasons of life, but some hats you
never take off. So I never take off an east
Bank Pioneer hat. And I'm really blessed to be able
to attend pretty much a monthly meeting that we have.
It's basically a sports meeting of folks that have played
ball at tech Excise me at east Bank over many
many years, and we talk about all things east Bank.

(14:40):
But one of the things that the guys and gals
wanted to do this year. They wanted to have a
fundraiser to support the three grade schools that are elementary
schools that are still left on our side of the river,
on the East Bank side of the river. And so
they came up with an idea, let's have a breakfast.
We're going to do it this Saturday before Christmas on
December of the twentieth at Marmette Rex Center. They'll be
at ten dollars ask for a ten dollars contribution, but

(15:02):
all the money that's raised that day will go to
those three three elementary schools.

Speaker 4 (15:06):
And so we're inviting.

Speaker 5 (15:08):
Athletes, cheerleaders, major, ratually, everybody their base, got any association
with East Bank. Judge Hardy will be there. So again
we think we'll have three four hundred people. Hopefull we
can raise a lot of money and be able to
give it back to the grade schools.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
Are you able to rope Jeff Jenkins into this?

Speaker 4 (15:22):
Jeff Jenkins will hopefully we will be there. Yes, Yeah,
we got to speak.

Speaker 5 (15:26):
Our speakers are going to be I think are our
master's ceremonies is going to be General Tacket, Proud eas
Bank guy Chris Massey for a former NFL player, will
be one of speakers. Also Marshall Grad and Jeff Davenport,
who was a tech tech grad and then went on
to play in the Kansas City Baseball in baseball is
in the Major League. So we'll have a really good crowd.

(15:46):
We'll have a lot of a membability from East Bank
that people will be able to buy and look at
and so forth. So jerseys, hats, pictures and different things.
So it's going to be a really a really fun.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
Time talk about that. I think sometimes, Larry, what happens
is is that, you know, communities love to everybody loves
to reminisce, everybody loves to get together and things of
that nature. But what I've learned in being with this
company and being in this market for the last five
years or so on this show specifically, is that there's
a certain special pride that comes from from that part

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of the count everybody's proud of their community, at least
they should be, but you guys from that part of
the world take it to another level.

Speaker 5 (16:23):
Oh that's really strong, it really is. And so anytime
you run into an East banker. I was in the
Eastern Panhandle this week and or this this is back
in the summer and met someone from me Spank many
years ago.

Speaker 4 (16:33):
But yeah, we do have a lot of pride, without
a doubt.

Speaker 5 (16:36):
When you go back into particularly in the sixties and
set fifty sixties and seventies, and even in the eighties,
we had a lot of state championships and a lot
of different sports, but mostly baseball and football. It just
really comes to the sense of community that we have.
And that's one of the special things about West Virginia itself,
and I think gets lost by people that are not
from West Virginia. It's just our pride in the communities.

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And so where we're talking about eat spank, we're talking
boot upon, we're talk talk about logan. We wear that
every day of our lives.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Yeah, and I think when you when you move away
from those areas, it even manifests itself even more. I mean,
I mean you feel it even stronger. I think bond
with it when you're maybe not necessarily there anymore because
you're thinking that's that's my home area.

Speaker 4 (17:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Let's talk about some of those teams over the years
at East Bank, not specifically the teams, but about the
success that they had over theirship because, as you said, Larry,
they had a lot of success, A lot of success.

Speaker 4 (17:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (17:31):
So like in the tenure when I was at East
Bank a little bit before. So we won championships in
seventy one and seventy three. So two years row or
two years out of three, I was on the seventy
three team. We're high six to nothing. I played at Parkersburg.
I remember just like it was yesterday. You never forget
that Eric Frakeovich was the weird high quarterback. I think

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he went on to play college. I love meeting people
from Rierton and ask them if they remember that game,
and then I tell them some of these spanks I
enjoyed a little bit more than that.

Speaker 4 (18:00):
Did you play? I was? I have had a lot
of speech, So I played tackle.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
So that's a you know, well, you know, a couple
of months ago, Jeff Jenkins comes in here and I
think it was on a Friday, and you know, he
was still wearing his East Bank High school jersey and
he could not a lot of people can say that
they could that they could wear their clothing from high school,
but Jeff Jenkins can. He looked like he could suit
up for the Pioneers when he was in here wearing

(18:25):
that jersey a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
Oh he does.

Speaker 5 (18:26):
And we'll we'll have at the breakfast, we're going to
have to think about one hundred East Bank caps that
we're going to sell, baseball caps that we're going to
sell for about fifteen dollars, So someone's don't donated that
the money we all go to the go to the schools.

Speaker 4 (18:38):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (18:39):
And I think you'll see a lot of a lot
of blue East Bank caps around town here and are
in a couple of weeks. But we do again, I
think the sense of pride in our communities, it really
is the most special thing about West Virginia. And that's
also why, you know, when we get these bigger issues
of closing schools and so it hurts right because it
is a part of our identity.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
We we all understand, you know, near the treasurer so
you especially understanding, you stand the economics of it. But
we would love to live in an era where every
community has their schools, you know, And because it's the
people have heard me talk about it before, Larry. It's
the center point of the community. It's where everything takes
place from boy Scouts to you know, water meetings and

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so on and so forth. It's where every fall carnivals,
that's where everything takes place. And I understand the economics
of it, I really really do. I completely understand it.
And you know what's been going on with closing and
consolidations and schools all over West Virginia. I completely get it.
But it doesn't make it any easier for the people
in those communities.

Speaker 4 (19:34):
It really does.

Speaker 5 (19:34):
In est Spank, I'm a third generation in East Bank graduate.
My grandmother graduated from me Spank High School in nineteen
twenty eight. So there was a high school or junior
high middle school in East Bank for over one hundred years.
And so when that history is lost, when the middle
schools closed this year, it really is difficult on the community,
without a doubt, but we do everything. That's one of
the reasons we do events like this, is the reason

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why we do do lunches, we still do re unions,
is we want to keep it alive. We want to
keep talking about East Bank and just remembering all the
great things. And again, because most of us, all of
us really are where we are today because of the
education through because of the community. Community that raises us up.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
What kind of a buy in do you have from
people that are no longer in West Virginia. I mean
people that have moved on to other states.

Speaker 5 (20:15):
All the East Bank Facebook Friends stuff is really really busy,
so we'll have a lot of people come in. We
just did we do a reunion once a year. It's
in September, last Saturday in September. We were able to
go this year, and we have people from all over
the country that came in. You know, we think the
oldest person that was there was ninety six, graduated I

(20:35):
think in nineteen thirty two, need to say he won
that prize. But again, we also had folks that came
all the way from California. So again it's that sense
of community and ability to just go back and talk
to folks. And you know, even when I do these lunches.
A few lunches ago, they were talking about the nineteen
sixty Baseball Championship Game, second inning and going through, which
was just a blast that sit there and listen to

(20:56):
us guys talk about that it is and it's.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
Just like it was yet like you said, it was
just it was just like it was yesterday, just like
it was yesterday to talk about your time as not
as an athlete, but as a student at East Bank School.
What was it like being a student at East Banks
early seventies that we used.

Speaker 5 (21:11):
Yeah, yeah, I got out in seventy six, so six, okay,
mid seventy so I think we graduated about three fifty.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
So it was a big school. We were triple A school.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
It's amazing when do you think about it now.

Speaker 5 (21:20):
Absolutely, we had four junior highs feeding into it. I
went to Marmott Junior High. Of course, all all these
schools are close now. But we were very competitive in baseball,
very competitive, great teams of baseball, in football, competitive and
other sports. Basketball was kind of decent, but it's a
big school with big bands, a lot of activities always
going on. We played Stonewall, I think when I was

(21:42):
a sophomore when as a freshman Stonwall in football we
had almost nine thousand people they said at their game
in Calvert Field in East Bank. But that was for
it before ESPN and high school was was really big.
And of course Stonewall had great teams like with Walter
Easley who played in the NFL. So those are just
really really good times that I'm blessed to have grown

(22:04):
up in that time and been able to go to
East Bank.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
Talking to State treasure Larry Pak, who's stepping away from
his treasure position just for a moment to talk about
this big event with the East Bank. We'll get back
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(22:29):
It says Pioneer Pride Worldwide and it's signed Joe. There
you go, So Joe, what we appreciate you listening to
us today. All right, we'll get back to the East
Bank thing a little bit later. On what's making news
in the Treasurer's office these days?

Speaker 5 (22:40):
Well, I think it's been it's been a big week
in the Treasure's office, particularly we announced yesterday that we've
revived we continue to revise our numbers for Hope scholarship
for next year, so down I think it's about now,
about two hundred and thirty million dollars. It's kind of
where we think we're going to land. I think with
our previous estimates we're as much as three hundred million dollars.
So we're trying to refine those now to be able

(23:00):
to give the governor, to give the legislature the best
information that we can. It's a lot of money, but
it's not a lot of money when you think of
the total state budget of six billion dollars or whatever
it is. But we we currently have about fifteen thousand
students that are taking advantage of the program. We think
it's going to go up to somewhere around forty thousand,
but next year is the year that it comes becomes
universally available or eligible, and so we're working hard on that,

(23:24):
but we're doing a lot of other stuff. Uncleaned property
continues to come in at bigger and bigger numbers. We
have this really complex financial society culture, and so we
work really hard trying to get that money out back
out to West Virginians. But we currently have about five
hundred million dollars of West Virginians money into our account.
So if anybody's lessening today other than planning to go
to these bank breakfast, please go the website and check

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and see if we've got your money.

Speaker 4 (23:48):
We'd love to give it back. I want to.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
I want you to explain that unclean property, because we
hear that all the time. You hear it on our news,
you see it in the paper and whatever. But many
people may not understand what exactly that is. So break
it down for dumb it down for people like me.
What exactly does that mean when you say unclaimed property?

Speaker 4 (24:05):
Yeah, it's it's it's really it's really kind of interesting.

Speaker 5 (24:08):
When I when I took the job, I think I
thought it was more just a dormant savings account, right,
but it is so much more than that. So it
is savings accounts, but it's refunds that maybe come from
a hospital, will come from a doctor, from an insurance company,
maybe they maybe you moved and they didn't get the
right address, or maybe they put your wrong address in South.
It could be a gift certificate that that that you

(24:29):
would didn't didn't spend. It could be utility deposits. That's
just so many different directions and ways that could come
a school school refunds. But basically what happens is if
a company or an entity has money and they can't
find the right fore owner, they're required to send it
to the Treasurer's office and then our job is to
go out and try to find you. And so it
could be sometimes it's government's money, sometimes it's nonprofits money,

(24:51):
it's the individual's money.

Speaker 4 (24:52):
So it can be an inheritance.

Speaker 5 (24:54):
If you remember, uh, you know the Depression Areas Society group. Uh,
they didn't tell anybody wear their money. Yes, so sometimes
it's in a bank in the next next town that
the kids, as a grandkids didn't know about. So it
can come at you a lot of different direction. But
against just our complex financial situation where we don't do
as much cash these days, and stuff just goes lots
of different directions.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
Talking to State Treasurer Larry Pack, all right, so we're
just a couple of weeks away from Christmas, but then
after that things are really going to ramp up as
far as the legislature goes. We saw just a couple
of days ago that the House Speaker, Roger Hanshaw, came
out with their agenda. Junior of Commerce had Brian Dayton
on the show earlier this week talking about their agenda.
You were one of the early ones that put out
some things for your agenda. How's that looking right now

(25:36):
for the legislative session.

Speaker 5 (25:37):
Well, I think it's exciting that people are being very
bold and clear about what they think are the priorities
for West Virginia going forward, and do it, and do it,
do it early in the sixty days session goes very
very fast. I experienced that myself two years in the
House of Delegates and then downstairs with Governor Justice, so
I think it's really really important. We tried to focus
on two or three big things, you know, tax cuts

(25:59):
for working peoples and no tax on overtime, no tax
on on on tips. Term limits. We we think that
these jobs are are are for for public service, they're
not for career. So three terms, go home, go back
and get a job. So we tried to I love that. Yeah,
And then and then of course again, if you don't
have a real world experience, you can't lead other people, right,

(26:21):
you need to make sense. And then teachers, you know,
we talk a lot about education, about schools and closing
schools and so forth, but we're not I don't think
we're talking enough about teachers, and they're the most valuable
employees players in in in that setting. We need to
make sure we take care of them. The mayor the
speakers is economics. Basically, what he've said is is all
our problems, all our challenges, can be mitigated, can be

(26:44):
lessened if we have good jobs. And so his his
entire portfolio was related to that. Uh So I was
able to listen to it. It sounds really, really good. I
look forward to the details, look forward to doing everything
I can to help him move his agenda forward. So
I'm excited about West Virginia. I think we have good leaders,
but we need to go We need to do some
of these things to really let people know that Westinia

(27:04):
is open for business. West Virginia does care about working
people in West Virginia does care about our teachers.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
Can I ask you a question, sure anything? Sure? What
are you gonna do it in the future?

Speaker 4 (27:13):
Don't know. The Lord's in charge of that.

Speaker 5 (27:15):
If you had asked me this five years ago, I
would have said Stone Rise would be operating in five
or six states. I thought we were going to be
in this until we got tired and they sent me
to the farm or something like that. So I don't know.
But what we're trying to do is we're trying to
really lead. We're trying to be consequential. We're trying to
talk about big picture issues. At the same time, we

(27:36):
want to do everything we can to make sure that
we're doing all the duties of the Treasure's Office. Or
we have a meeting today for an investment management board.
We invest about forty million dollars of pension money, so
that's a big part of what we do. But the
future will take care of itself. And right now what
we're going to do is be the best treasure we can.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
All right, let's got back to the East Bank thing.
Let's get all the particulars out there and keeps. People
are tuning in late about this reunion of sorts that
you got going on.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
Yeah, and that's exactly what it is. It's basically just
the just just they went to reunion.

Speaker 5 (28:01):
So we're gonna have a fundraiser on December the twentieth,
and that starts at nine o'clock at the Marmatt Recreation Center.
It's really all about raising money for the three grade
schools that are still left on the East Bake side
of the river, Pratt, Sharon Dawlles in Chesapeake. We have
a lot of East Bank memorability there. We think we
have three or four hundred people there. Chris Massey and

(28:22):
Jeff Davenport will be our speakers general tackle b r MC.
We'll have a lot of good food, a lot of fellowship,
and like say, if you want to get an East
Bank cap, you want to get in East Bank, Jersey,
this would be the place to go. So I look
forward toeing everyone on December of the twenties. So it
doesn't matter if you were an athlete or not. Everybody's
show up. We'll have a good time.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
And I just had this image of a bunch of
these former athletes like yourself getting there and talking and
one thing leads to another and then you end up
outside trying to run plays again. Is that gonna happen?

Speaker 5 (28:49):
I sure hope it doesn't with me, because I have
come my worth, O buddy, real quick after that.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
All right?

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how you doing? My friend? Good to be here, and
Amanda you're here as well? How you doing?

Speaker 13 (32:52):
Man?

Speaker 14 (32:52):
Thanks sir, having us again?

Speaker 3 (32:53):
Day All right? So, uh, what's uh what you guys?
Got a busy, busy weekend coming up? Right? Busy busy
couple of weeks, But go ahead, busy couple of weeks.

Speaker 15 (33:01):
We just ended a fantastic series of sounds of the season.
So thank you everyone who came out and visited us
in all not only Charleston, but Lewisburg and Parkersburg.

Speaker 14 (33:08):
So our orchestra has.

Speaker 15 (33:09):
Been all over the place and we are really excited
that on Friday we are going to be joined by
our friends with the Charlesta Ballet for one of my
favorite things we do every single year are annual performance
of the Nutcracker.

Speaker 16 (33:19):
Yes, I mean this is a really great concert every year.
We've been doing it now many many years, and it's
special for a number of reasons. But one of the
main reasons is that so many productions of the Nutcracker
these days, I mean Nutcracker Traditional Christmas then the story
takes place on Christmas Eve.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
You know, it's perfect for the season.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
It's beautiful. And a lot of.

Speaker 16 (33:39):
Productions of the Nutcracker all across the country are using
more and more pre recorded music, and ours is live music,
one hundred percent of the time, made by live musicians
right in West Virginia. And you know, there's a few
reasons why that matters. One is that you're never going
to get the immediacy and power of the score of
the notes that You'reovski wrote from a recording in a

(34:02):
concert hall. There's just something you know, the way the
concert hall is designed, the way that we are sitting
all together, you know, fifteen hundred people, two thousand people
sitting there watching this. You need that immediacy of real people.
And the second is that dancers do different things. We're
going to do three concerts of the Nutcracker Friday night,
Saturday afternoon, Saturday night, and the dancers are going to
do things a little bit differently each time. And part
of our job in the orchestra is to be flexible

(34:23):
enough and be accommodating enough so that these great dancers
in the Charles tun Bala can do their best work
and not worry about having to time themselves perfectly to
something that's been pre recorded.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
Amen to that as somebody who's not a musician, but
as somebody who I just prefer a lot music exactly.
I mean, that's the way. I mean. Everybody talks about
the big debate every year about the Super Bowl, and
I say, I don't care who performs, as long as
you do it live, right, Well, that's the only thing
I care about.

Speaker 16 (34:50):
Right Well, that's what it's about. You know, I mean,
music is about a connection between a person, like two
different people or thousands of people or whoever it is
performing and listening, and it's you have to be there,
you know, for it to be that special.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
And three different performances you may see three different things.

Speaker 16 (35:05):
Exactly what and you will I mean, you know, because
it really and it's it's really wonderful. Actually every year,
you know, I keep this is now, you know, my
third year here and so this will be my third
time during the Nutcracker, and I every people always ask,
you know, what's your favorite? Which night should I come?
You know, which which which performance should I come to? Friday,
Friday night, Saturday afternoon, Saturday night? And every year I

(35:28):
leave thinking that they were all I can't pick one,
because there's you know, Friday night has that excitement energy,
it's the first one. You know, everyone's really kind of
got that extra kind of buzz, you know, and then
Saturday there's in the afternoon, it's a totally different vibe
because it's the afternoon and people are in a different headspace,
and so there's you know, there's people take things a
little bit differently. Maybe they take maybe more risks or

(35:49):
something like that, and then Saturday night it's there's so
much celebratoriness because oh we made it, we did all this.

Speaker 4 (35:54):
Stuff right and so.

Speaker 16 (35:55):
But but each one sort of lends the performance in
very subtle but meaningful ways, just a little bit of
a different, different feel, and so it's really great to
get to have that journey.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Again. We're talking about the Nutcracker, but there's a lot
of other things going on. A man, I will to
let you talk about some other things that that we've
had going on and where we're going in the future.

Speaker 15 (36:12):
Yeah, So again, we just wrapped up some great Sounds
of the Season concerts. If you are a fan of
pops music, Christmas music, holiday music, you really missed out,
so make sure you takets early next year. But on
Sunday too, after our fantastic Orchestra does three performances with
the Valley for the Nutcracker, we're going to be taking
the Clay Center stage once more with our wonderful West
Virginia Symphony Course and they're going to be performing Handles

(36:34):
Messiah on Sunday evening at seven thirty. It's something they
do typically once a year, but it's really really, really
special when we get to do it in the Clay
Center Hall and add just an extra element of not
only orchestral excellence, because the hall is so wonderfully musically
sound that it really feels nice and warm, and it
is another great way to bring in the holiday spirit,

(36:56):
especially if you'd like to do something a little bit
more with the coral music, a little bit more of
a religious aspect rather than the Nutcracker.

Speaker 3 (37:04):
Well, and the temperatures on Sunday are going to be
in the low twenty so anything that makes us feel
warm would be a good thing.

Speaker 15 (37:10):
Well, nice warm concert hall, warm music, filling the things
in that epic hallelujah course. I mean that is one
thing that you can't bring in the holiday season without.

Speaker 16 (37:18):
Right, stay cozy with the Symphony.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
I'm gonna have you kind of put a bow on,
no pun intended on the year twenty twenty five for
the Symphony, because this is it's been an exciting year.
You've had a lot of great things going on. This
is probably be the last time we'll talk to you
this year. We'll be talking to you plenty in twenty
twenty six, but just kind of do the year and
review thing.

Speaker 15 (37:36):
Yeah, Well, we had a great beginning to our Symphonic
series opening and I kicked off with a bang, and
then our second shunter, we really got to feature some
homegrown talent. Linda Goodman, who's our principal flute performs an
amazing couple of pieces, including a world premiere for the
Symphony not Nancy Galbreits Concerto, which was really really fun.
Our Pop season two is already halfway over, which is

(37:58):
crazy to think about. This is not typic what our
season does. But we started early this year with Listen
where You Live and celebrated Bands of Charleston in the
Music of West Virginia, which was an epiicit and again
we finished with Sounds of the Season. So we're really
looking forward to this last weekend of concerts, and like
you said, we've got a lot of really great things
coming up in twenty twenty six, some fantastic Pops concerts,

(38:19):
including one I'm really particularly excited about with an Illusionist,
So we'll be doing some magic on stage with the orchestra.
We'll be bringing Carmena Barana back to the stage too,
which the last time we were supposed to do that
was right before COVID hits, So something that we've been
yearning for for quite some time, and then we'll wrap
up the season. Not only was a Van corpseymbody Sunday,
but with another collaboration with the ballet in May of

(38:40):
twenty twenty six, we're doing Swan Lake too, So lots
of amazing things that we've already done and lots of
great things to come.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
And remind people why they should start planning for twenty
twenty six. In other words, you know, to start looking
at the tickets too.

Speaker 15 (38:53):
Oh yeah, start looking at your tickets now. All of
our concerts, we like to think, are super super affordable.
Everything starts typically about fourteen dollars for individual to get
into the concert hall. But if you want those really
great seats, especially for the illusionists, I would go ahead
and get those reserved now. As we're getting closer to
these really great concerts and we get closer to sellouts,
which is what we want in Charleston, which is what

(39:13):
we want in the valley. Keeps us bringing these amazing
symphonic and arts works to the stage on these great collaborations.
So get your tickets now. Visit Wbsymphony dot org. That's
our website for all of the information on all the
different events we have coming up, and make sure you
tune into our social media and we've been working with
a really fun new content creator, so I like to
think that our content is at its tops. We are

(39:35):
some suiting out so super fun videos, so make sure
you follow us on Facebook and Instagram too.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
There are so many, I mean, just the next couple
of days, guys. And I've spent a lot of time
over the last few shows talking about some of these
things we had on the Folks earlier from the album theater.
They've got their their product their Christmas productions going on.
They're doing a few shows this weekend. I know that
yesterday I had Bob Thompson on the show, and Joy
to the World is happening, you know, tonight night over

(40:01):
at the Culture Center. Of course, the Charleston Christmas Parade
is going on Tonight's Christmas parades all over this weekend.
If you can't get in the holiday spirit, that's on
you well.

Speaker 15 (40:10):
And not only in the holiday spirit, but supporting all
of these local arts organizations in the valley. I mean
it is I mean, look at all of the offerings
we have right now for this entire month.

Speaker 14 (40:19):
I mean, if we continue to support them.

Speaker 15 (40:21):
The offerings not only will increase in enhance, but I
may be able to share some really, really really exciting
stuff the Symphony might be doing next to Somber too.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
All right, Well, I'm like you said that in your
eyes lit up and you've turned around and looked at
Maurice like there's an inside.

Speaker 15 (40:34):
Well, I am particularly excited for this upcoming season that
we're working on right now. That announcement will come in
early spring, and some of those pieces and programmings that
we are looking to have are something that we've been
talking about for quite some time for quests that we've
gotten somebers of people. So I can't tease everything this yet.
I will tease it much much more this spring, Dave.

(40:54):
But just know that the West Virginia Symphony is always
looking to do fun and innovative programming as well as
our fun classical stuff.

Speaker 14 (41:01):
So make sure you're tuning into us. We're doing good things.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
All right. Give us the recap on what we're promoting
short term there for the weak of course.

Speaker 15 (41:07):
This Friday and Saturday, visit us with the Nutcracker with
at Charleston Ballet Friday night at seven thirty Saturday at
two and Saturday night at seven thirty, all at the
Clay Center, and then again on Sunday seven thirty. On
Sunday evening will be the Messiah with the Charleston West
Virginia Symphony Course.

Speaker 14 (41:24):
And you can get all of those tickets.

Speaker 15 (41:25):
With our friends at the Clay Center box office in
person on the phone at three oh four, five six,
one thirty five seventy, or again visit wbsymphony dot org.

Speaker 14 (41:33):
We've bought all the links there you'll need.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
Amanda Marie, always a pleasure to have you on the show.
If we don't talk to you for the rest of
the year, have a happy and wonderful Christmas season, and
we'll be talking to you in a whole lot of
the new year about some of these exciting I'm excited
to find out what you got cooking.

Speaker 14 (41:46):
In that brown Oh, I'm excited to announce it.

Speaker 3 (41:48):
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Baron and me Now on this show tomorrow. Angie Gillenwater
from the Gannal Charleston Humaine Association is here as she
is every Friday, with this week's Adopt Me Please Put
of the Week. The folks from the Southern West Virginia
Toy Ride are going to stop by. We always are

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you glad to support to these motorcyclists as they are
out collecting toys for the kids this holiday season. And
so we'll talk to those folks on the show tomorrow.
And I can't tell you anything more at this time.
This is what we call a tease into business, but
I will say this, a Charleston radio legend is going
to join me in studio tomorrow. He's coming back to

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the airwaves in Charleston where he was a dominant force
for years. Now. It may only be for one day,
but we've got him tomorrow on the show Legend Legend
in the world of Broadcaire I see Charleston. He's going
to join us on the show tomorrow. We just have
to wait and find out who that is. Bigley Pigley,
Wiggley Hotline three zero four three four five fifty eight
fifty eight Tony the Taylor Text three zero four nine

(47:11):
three five five zero zero A. Do you want to
remind you that the Charleston Christmas Parade is tonight. We're
going to have coverage on the radio seven Chris Lawrence
from the News team, Steve Bishop from V one hundred,
and Lisa Odie, who you hear on the Let's Talk
podcast with carl Lee. We were pulling her in for
parade duty tonight as well. All of our stations will
be in the parade tonight. And while we're talking about
parades or stations will be in the Hurricane Christmas Parade

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and the Nitro Christmas Parades on Saturday. I'll be there
in Hurricane with ninety eight seven the Mountain and as
I said, all of our stations are going to be there.
That's a noontime parade, and then the Nitro Parade will
be in the evening. Now, this is the one that
was originally scheduled for last Saturday night, but was moved
because Nitro, well, they were a little bit busy the
football team last week playing Princeton for a state championship,

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so they opted to move the parade of this Saturday night.
All of course is weather permitting, so we will see
you there for those parades. Also got to take a
quick moment to wish happy birthday to my good friend
and frequent tag team partner Steve Animal from ninety eight
to seven, The Mouth and Wild and Wonderful Classic Grog.
He's sixty something today, his liver is more like one
hundred and sixty. But the Animal is celebrating a birthday today,

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so I want to wish happy birthday to him. A
Dave Island showing five eighty lives broad to part by
Hustan's Pizza. Get the Hustan's Holiday Pack, a large at
and inch Pepperoni pizza, ten breadsticks, twelve hot wings, and
a two litter battle of Pepsi only thirty three to
ninety nine. Let's get some some texts, Texas, Dave Donald
Trump had the military seas of Venezuelan oil tanker question mark.
That's not the behavior expected from the winner of the

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prestigious FIFA Peace Prize. It's a texture, Texas. Tell me
how it's not illegal. It's not an illegal order to
shoot missiles at shipwrecked crew members. Tell me how it's
not an illegal order to board and to seize fourign
ship like pirates following illegal orders like they're doing that
song n WA made about the police will start to
apply to the military, he says, texta Texas Dave. Democrats

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are winning elections in bright red states and it's going
to happen here. My MAGA friends are starting to turn
on Dozy don Well. Appreciate the text, but if you
think anything's changing anytime soon in West Virginia, you are
sadly mistaken. Opinion on my part could be totally wrong.
Been wrong before. We've been telling you about this weekend
murder in Charleston and now a second person facing charges.

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Morgan Pemberton's story posted this morning wv Metronews dot com.
Twenty five year old Brennan Michael Adkins of Saint Albans
now charged with the first and second degree murder a
thirty one year old Joshua Walls in this murder, and
now previously a thirty three year old by the name
of Jack Roff was charged in Walls's death. Happened on
Main Street in Charleston's Sunday morning when police were called

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to a home there. They found Walls with two gunshot wounds.
He was taken to camc where he later died. Now
Raff had stated that it was Adkins that killed Walls.
Roff did turn himself into police earlier this week. Apparently
the cops stumbled up on the name of Brenton Adkins
when they were searching through the deceased phone. Surveillance video
showed two people into the home and two gunshot wounds

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can be heard. All apparently from what they're saying, it
all has to do with drugs. Apparently Adkins is in
the Western Regional Jail and Rof is in the South
Central Regional Jail. Both are being held without bond. And
you know, again, it's a tragic story. I didn't It
doesn't matter who these people are. I didn't know any
of them myself, but we do have the story. It

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posted about it at over at to wv Metronews dot com.
F Morgan Pemberton close the show by just saying this,
We had a pretty interesting discussion yesterday and it had
to do with Australia banning social media for kids sixteen
and under. We had a really good discussion with a

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physician who specializes in mental health for teens, particularly as
it as it applies to social media. So I would
urge you if you haven't, if you want to go
back and listen to that. It's available wv metronews dot com.
The two o'clock interview that I did yesterday, uh, pretty
interesting stuff.

Speaker 4 (51:10):
And this was a doctor.

Speaker 3 (51:11):
I think he said he had three kids, and he said,
I do not allow my kids uh to be on
social media at all. So that's uh, that's what he's saying.
Text says, OMG, the Trump Trump Trump whining is just
as bad as Jan Brady's Marsha, Marsha, Marsha. Get out
of the basement and get some fresh air once in
a while. Boys and girls says a texture.

Speaker 4 (51:31):
Hey, look who's here.

Speaker 3 (51:32):
It's TJ Meadows. It's up. How you doing man?

Speaker 4 (51:35):
Doing greats?

Speaker 3 (51:36):
Just great you. I'm doing well. I'm doing well.

Speaker 4 (51:41):
Had a Uh.

Speaker 3 (51:42):
I had to get that question into Larry Pack though,
just asking what his future because you know, he he
hears stuff, he knows, he knows what's being said out there.
He's gonna run for governor, sure he knows, but I
had to ask him. Depends on what JJ's going to do.
And JJ hasn't decided yet, yep. And you got to
remember we're talking about twenty eight. You know, we're not
even to twenty twenty six yet, you know. Yeah, but

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it's sooner and sooner these days and Christmas decorations and
the difference is it's primary, right, I mean, it's gonna
be contested against the sitting governor, and so it escalates things,
it moves it closer in the election cycles. I just
wonder if you'll see what we saw in the last
election when you had all of these people, was a
five that ran for governor on the Republican side last year.

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I mean, you think we'll see that again? I believe that.

Speaker 4 (52:32):
I would hope not.

Speaker 3 (52:33):
I'll put it that way, all right, all right, give
me quick twenty once you get on talk on today
Senator Joe Manchin, the former US Senator, the great state
of West Virginia ten oh six, Hoppy Kerchiable at eleven six.
Do you need any more other than mansion and Kurgiable?
So we have it if you need it, that's all
you need. All right.

Speaker 4 (52:49):
We gotta go.

Speaker 3 (52:50):
Thank you so much, Ryan Nicholson, our producer. I will
see you tomorrow. Till then have fun, love somebody, and
I'll see you later today too.

Speaker 4 (53:00):
M hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
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