12/12/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Angie Gillenwater, Coach Kidd, Southern WV Toy Ride

Angie Gillenwater from the Kanawha Charleston Humane Association, Coach Kidd as co-host, and people from the Southern WV Toy Ride.

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or Tony Taylor's Facebook page for more information. Friday edition
of the show. And yes, we admit it to the weekend.
And I don't know if it's just the weather or what,
but does this seem like it's been the longest week
in history? It does to me. Coming up a little
bit later on the show, the Southern West Virginia Toy Ride, Folks,
you're going to stop by. This is big an annual
event where a whole lot of motorcycle riders from Charleston
and the surrounding areas go on a big ride to

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collect toys for kids to Christmas, happening December the twentieth.
The meet up is Daniel Boone Park and the ride
will go to Women's and Children from there. There are
several drop off locations around the valley a ton of fact,
and they've already been collecting toys at those venues, which
we'll go over all those a little bit later. They've
actually been doing that since first and November, I understand.
So they're going to wrap up the drop off spots

(02:19):
to get ready for the right. We'll talk about it
with them coming up a little bit later on Plus
on the show yesterday and all the promos, I promise
you I was going to have the return of a
radio legend to the airwaves here in Charleston, West Virginia.
The laugh may sound familiar, ladies and gentlemen formerly of
another station, just hanging out with us for the day.
Would you please make welcome Coach Kid, buddy, good morning,

(02:41):
how are you doing good?

Speaker 4 (02:42):
Let's let's let's ease up on the legends. Come on,
come on, let's back that down.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Come on. Coach Kid, of course, is very well known
personality in the Charleston market for a number of years,
stepped away from radio to go do something else, and
he's back with us today.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
And by the way, I'm not sure or what that
something else is yet I've stepped away. I just don't
know what. He's just something else.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
So Coach Kid and I are going to talk about something.
He's actually got a project totally outside radio and out
that he's very passionate about. And so that's why I
really brought him on the show. But then when I
found out that he had a little extra time this one,
I said, won't you just come on early, buddy, I'm
off today, So here he is. We're gonna explain all
that coming up a little bit later on. Plus, your
calls and texts are always welcome. Big Lee Pigley Wiggley

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Hotline three zero four three four five fifty eight fifty eight.
Tony the Taylor Text three zero four nine three five
five zero zero eight. Let's welcome in now, Angie Gillan
water from the Canoil Charleston. You've made association with this
week's Adopt Me Please Pet of the Week and as always,
our pets pictures posted to Dave Aland Radio and Facebook
and at Dave A seventy on X Angie, good morning
and welcome to the show.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
Good morning. It's it's very cold and very hard to
get out of bed.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah, I got you. I gotta say. I texted you
this morning and I said, oh, by the way, I said,
I'm going to have a coach kid formerly from another
company here on the radio. And you said, here's the quote.
How exciting the sound of my teen years?

Speaker 6 (04:05):
Wow?

Speaker 4 (04:06):
Wow, Angie, it's a pleasure talking to you.

Speaker 5 (04:10):
Oh, I'm very excited. I've been waiting on this phone
call morning.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Angie.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
You know I'm here too, right, Yeah, yeah, we've got
the host of the show. Yeah, okay, I'm just old news.
I guess all right. So, as always, we have our picture,
our pitts picture posted over Dave Island Radio on Facebook,
the WHS network Facebook page and at Dave seventy on X.
I want you to tell us the story of Twinkle Toes.

Speaker 5 (04:37):
Twinkle So Twinkle Toes, contrary to his name, is a
very very large dog. He's about sixty town. Something about
naming these giant dogs very petite names just tickles me.
But he is very sweet. He's very mannerly. He's about
like six years old. We assume so he's got all

(04:59):
that puppy energy out. All he wants to do now
is just lay on the couch and stay warm. But yeah,
he's extremely housebroken. You will not have any accidents in
your house with this dog, and if you do, think
about taking him home. He's great with kids. He probably
needs to be the only pet in your home or

(05:19):
you need to have female dogs. He is very much
a lady man.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
More like the part about wanting to dis lay around, Okay,
I want to. I want to spend a little time
talking Angie about fostering pets from the shelters, because I
feel like sometimes we don't spend enough time about the
importance of fostering.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
Talk about that.

Speaker 5 (05:39):
So fostering, I'm the foster for our shelter and it's
one of my favorite things that I do for the shelter.
You get temporary pet ownership, so whether it's for a night,
a weekend, a couple months until the pet gets adopted,
you get to have that pet in your home. We
learn a lot of information about them in a home
setting that we don't get to see at the shelter,
which increases their adoptability. Pictures of them like in a

(06:02):
home rather than surrounded by concrete walls. Also increases their adoptability,
and also it greatly greatly improves their mental health. And
the other good thing about fostering is it's free. We
provide any supply that you might need, including back care
for the foster pets.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
It's great.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
It's a great program. And I know several of my
friends that do that and will foster dogs and cats,
and then they love it and it's a very very
important part of the of the process too. Also, I
love the fact that on your social media you have
some dogs up for adoption, Angie, that you have divided
them into different categories, cat tolerant, loves kids, never met
a stranger, et cetera. I noticed that this morning. That's

(06:40):
a pretty good idea to do it that way.

Speaker 5 (06:42):
Yeah, because there are a lot of people in our comments,
we try to listen to the community and what they're
looking for, and a lot of people will comment these
specific traits. So to make it easier, we will, I mean,
we will lay it right out for you. We want
these dogs into homes and out of the shelter, so
we're trying to make it as easy as possible. I'm
pretty similar to online shopping, just add it to car

(07:02):
and check out.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
And you when when when the pet has adopted Let
me go back to that a second, When when the
pet has adopted for foster? Is it a better chance
for the pet to get adopted than rather being in
the kennel itself? I mean, I know you said, you know,
taking pictures like that. Do the owners that foster him,
do they do they actually get to to hold on

(07:24):
to him? And do they end up adopting him rather
than giving him to someone else?

Speaker 5 (07:29):
So I will say, if it's your first time fostering,
usually they will foster fail. But we do have a
pretty strong community I said. I'll say strong as in
they don't give into to adopting their foster pets, but
a pretty big community of those foster parents that their
sole purpose is fostering. And should they what we call
foster fail and adopt their foster pet, they can't foster more.

(07:52):
So I would say, if it's your first time fostering,
you're probably gonna end up keeping.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
I don't know that I could ever do that or
that exact reason, because once I bring you in your mind,
oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
That, and and the love grows, you start to get
to know the pet a little bit more, because my
family's actually thought about it before, I know, just thought
about it. But at the same time, I'm like, I
don't think I could return this animal. Once I start
to love on it, understand its personality, get to get
to love on it a little bit more, sleep with
you and all that kind of stuff. I don't think
that pet's going back there. He's gonna stay right here.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Oddly enough, the same thing that Coach's wife.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
Says, Yeah, I think he's gonna stay right We have.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
A text here for you and Gie. So do the
animals suffer separation anxiety once again after returning to the
shelter from their foster family.

Speaker 5 (08:39):
I would say, and this is actually proven. There are
research studies about this.

Speaker 7 (08:44):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (08:44):
Their stress levels do not increase upon returning to the shelter.
They if anything, they just return to normal levels. But
upon returning from a foster home, especially like overnight trips,
stress levels do not increase upon returning to the shelter.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
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You guys out at about anywhere this weekend? I think
I saw that you got an event going on with
some other shelters over in my neck of the woods
or in Tays Valley. Is that right?

Speaker 5 (09:21):
Oh? Yeah, we have a huge adoption event with Best
Friends Animal Society. It's at Valley Park, one Valley Park Drive.
So many shelters are going to be there with so
many adoptable pets. And this is if we get, you know,
three feet of snow, we're still going to be there.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
Nice. What time is the event? I mean, maybe that'll
help you out, but what time is the event?

Speaker 5 (09:43):
So we're starting We will be there with pets getting
set up at ten am. So if you roll through
at ten, we'll likely show you some animals and we're
going to be there until five.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Pus okay, because I think you should be okay early on.
From what the weather folks are saying, it's probably going
to hit night, probably mid afternoon or something like this.
You may have to cut a little bit short, but
I think at ten o'clock, ten eleven o'clock, I think
you should be in pretty good shape. And it would
be a great day to be there because there's going
to be so many people in a hurricane for the
Christmas parade tomorrow, so you're gonna have a lot of
that traffic rolling through there.

Speaker 5 (10:12):
We're hoping so this is an outside event, so we're
hoping every one adops these dogs so we don't have
to sit in the cold the dog.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
And speaking and speaking of cold, it is going to
be bitterly cold starting Saturday night really through early Tuesday morning.
You shouldn't have to remind people of this, Angie, but
please please make arrangements for your outside pets and some dogs.
I know people will say, well, my dog loves it
and they're bread for it, and that may be the case,
but the reality is the majority of animals are not
bred for it, and despite what they may have told you,

(10:42):
they really don't want to be outside.

Speaker 5 (10:45):
Absolutely, if your dog is, you know, bread for the
cold temperatures and it is an outside pet, that's great,
that's fine. Just please make sure that you have the
proper shelter in place, straw instead of blankets or any
type of soft material that the area that you have
them for housing is covered with. You have three walls,
windshield and make sure that water bowls are not frozen.

(11:09):
But yeah, Usetiorka is a fan of the snow. I
have one like that. Great, but please make sure those
are there. Yeah, in the events that they don't want
to be outside anymore.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
We had a texture. So is there any particular donation
item you need to protect the pawpads from frostbite outside?

Speaker 5 (11:26):
So we actually do pet safe pet safe salt that
we put down ice melt. We have that on our
wish list on Amazon, which you can see on our
Facebook page. But that is the precaution that we take
just because we do not have enough little tiny booty
to put on all the eggs the Seltzer does.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
I didn't know that was the thing. So they make
pets safe salt. I was unaware of that.

Speaker 5 (11:49):
Yep, they do, and they sell it anywhere you can
get pet supplies.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
Well, there you go.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
Well, Angie, before you go, I want to let you
know thanks for being on the program. And we have
an eight track cassette coming your way with Turkey time
on it for you. Okay.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
Oh, yes, I saw somebody posted that video the other
day of that.

Speaker 4 (12:08):
All right, we only could get it in eight tracks.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
I'm interested in the fact you said it's an eight
track cassette.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
It could be both Buddy psychology marright.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Oh and also another text where you, Angie, somebody said,
don't forget about those strays too, because every neighborhood probably
gets some strays out there. If you, if you're so inclined,
make a make a place for the strays outside too.

Speaker 5 (12:30):
Absolutely, our shelter is busting at the seams right now.
But also give us a call and we will do
what we can to assist you with those strays as well.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
All right, Angie Gillenwater Kanal Charleston. You main association with
our check in this week. I appreciate you being here
and I'm glad I was made able to make your
dream come true and getting to talk to talk to
Coach Kid on the air. I'm sorry, but next week
you're just gonna have to deal.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
With just me.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
Is that okay?

Speaker 5 (12:53):
I guess that's fine.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
Yeah, I know. You gotta take the good with the
bad engine and you appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
We'll talk soon. Thanks a lot. To talk to you
next week.

Speaker 5 (13:01):
Thank you have a good one.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
Do you want to remind you that they are out
at Valley Park tomorrow So it would be a good
opportunity if you're heading to the Hurricane Christmas Parade to
swing on in there. It's a huge adoption event. All
of these different shelters are going to be there together,
so coach would be a good time for people stop by.

Speaker 4 (13:13):
Absolutely, It's what a great organization, and and and and
all that. Again, we've got our pet from from there
as well. It's I got to be honest with you,
it's very difficult to go in there.

Speaker 3 (13:23):
I have never been in there. Yeah, and as much
as I love the people up there, I have never
set foot inside the shelter.

Speaker 8 (13:30):
Now.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
My wife and I the first cat we ever adopted,
she went and got it, and I said, well, why
don't you just go again? And did you come home
with it with a cat? And she did. The two
we have now just showed up at strays on our eyes.
So you just.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
Adopted them, took them in, they adopted us.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
I got you, yeah, both of them.

Speaker 4 (13:47):
Yeah, I remember I'm in a quick story. I met
my wife there at the shelves. Yeah, she wasn't behind
the cage, but I wasn't doing a Halloween thing there.
I was broadcasting you do it a Halloween thing there,
and we were kind of talking. But she came out
and we really got That's when we got to see
each other. She was looking at cats with their little daughter, Emma,

(14:08):
And now we're married. Emma's eighteen years old. Oh so
there you go.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
There's so many spae and neuter jokes going there, but
I'm not going to do that.

Speaker 4 (14:17):
That wasn't until after we got married.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Okay, all right, So our dog this week, our adopt
me please put of the week picture posted at Dave
Allen Radio and Facebook and also the WCHS Network Facebook
page and at DABASE. Seventy on x twinkle toes around
sixty pounds, around six years old. Hug Job probably needs
to be the only dog, but seem to be okay
with female dogs and a Qutie too. Very good black

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and white dog. It's a classic black and white dogs.
If you're looking for a dog, go check it out,
and go check out Angie and folks with all these
different shelters. They'll be at Valley Park in Hurrican tomorrow.
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term when I said broadcast legend, Yeah, that didn't sit
well with you.

Speaker 4 (16:56):
Kid. No, I don't see that even a little bit.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Okay, why not?

Speaker 4 (16:59):
No, because I'm I'm just coach.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (17:02):
And the funny thing is, I'm gonna blow you away here.
That's not even my real name. What coaches not coach
is not your I know it blows a lot of
people away. They're like, my real name is milburn Sminia.
It was just hard to spell.

Speaker 3 (17:14):
I got so it was. I thought it might be like, uh,
coach delicious or something like that.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
No, that's that's now.

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Don't don't, don't don't. We're we're working. We're working on
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it out? Okay, okay, buddy, coach kid is with us
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Speaker 4 (17:31):
I don't be in here. I don't know why you
thought this would be a good idea. You need to
rethink things, dude. I know a whole lot of things. Yeah,
I really do.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
All right, save us folks, if you will. We'll get
to the folks from the southern West Virginia toy Ride
here just introduced us. If you will introduce yourselves to us,
if you will.

Speaker 7 (17:50):
Please, I'm Corey Mohawk Kinkle. I'm the founder of the
toy Ride for women's shown his hospital.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
Okay, and his daughter. Okay, but that microphone down there
a little bit. It's all right, it's all good. It's
all good. And you are known as Giggles.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
I don't believe it.

Speaker 3 (18:04):
No, no, no, no, not at all. All right, So
let's talk about this ride. How many years this thing
been going to How many years this thing been going on?
Twelve years? And were you there from the very beginning
in this quarry? Were you there from the very beginning.

Speaker 7 (18:19):
Yeah, she was in the hospital when she was three
years old at Women's Chordren's with the upper respiratory infection,
and it kind of just took off from there. What
happened was there's a playroom up there at the fifth
floor at Women's Children. So a lot of stuff is
broke missing DVD players the hospital, the kids' rooms up
there on the fifth floor and throughout some of the
rest of the hospital. There they got DVD players. You

(18:42):
put xboxes on a cart and wiel it to the
room and the kids can play games and stuff like
that while they're in there, just something to give them
something to do while they're in there not knowing what
exactly is going on with the MO they're getting test
run and everything on them.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yeah, and I've had you guys on the show for
the last couple of years to talk about this big
event and then it's going to be on It's gonna
be December twentieth. But you've been collecting toys up till
that point. But this is this is personal for you
and your families. Yes, yeah, yeah, I mean take us
back through. I mean I don't want to, you know,
like dig up any bad memories anything, but obviously it
left an impression on you, Corey, or you wouldn't be

(19:14):
doing that what you're doing. Now, take us back through
those days with your daughter.

Speaker 7 (19:17):
Really, it started out she was in there. She was
in there like any other kid that was in the hospital,
don't know what's going on, scared have everything hooked up
to her test being run, trying to figure out what
was going on.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
She was in there for several days.

Speaker 7 (19:31):
And then we got to talking after we've seen the
playroom originally started out with the lady by the name
of Christy Bissett, and we started working with her in
the beginning of this, but now the lady we work
with is Summer Right Women's Children's. It's just something good
to do. I guess you could say give back to
the community. You always got people saying do this or

(19:52):
do that, but in the end, you really don't know
who you're helping out when you're just going and donating something,
or where it's going. If you don't, if it's going
on a shelf with the price tag on it, and
this you actually get to see it go straight to
the hospital and kids wake up Christmas Morning with toys
and they get given out throughout the rest of the year.

Speaker 4 (20:09):
Yeah. And that's the thing that I think a lot
of people misinterpret as well, is that you have no
idea where anything's going, and you have first look, yes,
and you're right there, and like this is going there,
this is going there, This is perfect.

Speaker 7 (20:23):
One hundred percent of the toys stay here local. They
don't go out of the state of West Virginia, they
don't go out of Charleston area. They stay here and
go to the kids at the hospital Christmas morning, and
throughout the rest of the year. Over the years, we've
had businesses donate tablets some of the kids. If you
go to the pre off room that are having surgery
and stuff like that, sometimes they'll bring a tablet out

(20:43):
for the kids to play games on or do something
before they go in to have surgery. That's been donated
over the years from this event, and there's a lot
of stuff that goes on.

Speaker 4 (20:51):
I would also imagine that you would want for the
kids that are in the hospital too, as you've seen
any time they're in the hospital. Number One, importantly they're
not home. No, so exactly, you want a little bit
of a normalcy when it comes to Christmas Morning or
just activities that happened because they've been there for so long.

Speaker 7 (21:09):
Yeah, they have no clue what's going on with them.
All they know is they see all these machines going off. Yeah,
and you know, it's got to make them feel uncomfortable because,
like you said, they ain't at home.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Most of the time.

Speaker 7 (21:22):
When they're not at home, Santa's kids, they want to
know how Santa's going to get there too.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
You know.

Speaker 7 (21:27):
Wow, we got a guy that dresses up to Santa
every year. He's done it for twelve years now.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Jimbo.

Speaker 7 (21:35):
He goes by lock Tight, he dresses up to Santa
and rides a bike and he leads us to Women's
Children's Hospital.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
And the visual I have seen that in the past,
because our sister station ninety eight seven a month is
usually a big part of this, and I've seen that
visual in the past of those motorcycles rolling into Women's
and children led by Santa Claus and the kids maybe
at the windows or so on. You've got kids in
the windows waving at us.

Speaker 7 (21:56):
You got kids holding signs up and then before we leave,
we go up with a few of us, will go
up with Santa and he'll pass out toys to a
few of the kids up there, so they actually get
to see Santa before we leave, and some of them
actually get to get something from Santa before we leave
that day.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
And again this is happening on December twentieth. The ride
is but you've been collecting things really, I think since
the first of November, and to'll be doing that through
the weekend. There's so many places here. I just mentioned
a few of them. Gunnies, Bar and Grill and Nitro,
Blizzard's custom Cycles, Generation's Barbershop at South Charleston, Red Lobster,
Elk River Bar and Grill See Adam Tony Tire, Fifth Third,
Bank Town and Country Lanes, twenty one Pool Room in Cissonville,

(22:35):
Reads Barbershop at South Charleston, Gresham Plumbing, Swamp Fox Tavern,
Johnson Controls O'Reilly's Auto Parts across Lanes, Smith's Grocery Store.
Now if you Family Dollar Stores and Dunbar, Cross Lanes, Kanas, City, Marmette,
South Charleston and Charleston, I mean, all these businesses are
stepping up. And these are businesses guys that don't have
to do this. No, they don't have to.

Speaker 7 (22:56):
They I get ahold of them to be in of
this starting in October, call to make sure that they
want to do it again this year. And usually I
speak with the general managers or district managers for Dollar
General and Family Dollars and stuff like that, and they
put all their stores on.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
Board for it.

Speaker 4 (23:11):
Is there anything particular that maybe for next year obviously
that you really are wanting or needing A short of.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
DVDs?

Speaker 4 (23:23):
Okay, wow, DVDs.

Speaker 7 (23:26):
That's a shortage, yeah, because a lot of the DVDs
if you go up to the hospital. In the playroom,
they got a wall there that's nothing but like a
bookcase of DVDs and you open them.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
Up and a lot of them are missing, missing, scratch
or whatever.

Speaker 4 (23:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (23:39):
Interesting, And those kids and the kids in the room
up there on the fifth floor, they got TVs and
DVD players mounted to the walls so they can actually
watch cartoon movies or they can watch movie with their
family or something, just like they're at home, like you said.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
And that should be easy to find. I mean, I
know exactly. I got like fifteen to twenty of those things,
just obviously. I never look at them out with platforms, and.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
I think you mean you had those. I had those,
you had effective now you no longer have no exactly
talk about breaking it down into the age groups for
the kids, guys, I mean, because you should get certain
things for certain ages.

Speaker 4 (24:12):
Talk about that.

Speaker 7 (24:13):
I got on the flyer toys needed for children's ages
infant to fifteen years of age. The babies get overlooked
a lot, so baby toys, rattlers, anything like that, small
stuffed animals that they can see that they can cling to.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
Just infants.

Speaker 7 (24:33):
A lot of the infants get overlooked because they're little also,
so I mean anything for a baby or something like that,
even bright new baby bottles. I mean that might help
a family out even during the time.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
Turn anything away that somebody to do, No, just nothing used.

Speaker 7 (24:49):
It can be used as long as it's like a
dollhouse or a kitchen, plastic kitchen, something that can be
wiped off. Right the playroom up there at the hospital.
They go in there and they have like door kitchen
nets and stuff like that, and as long as they
can wipe it off or disinfect it, it'll stay there
in that room and kids can go to that room
and play with the stuff.

Speaker 4 (25:07):
Well, a lot of times when it comes to things
like that, are people asking for things. Unfortunately, children and
infants really get overlooked. Yes, I remember broadcasting and doing
things like that and people would bring, you know, socks
and stuff for grown ups, but for infants you really
had to hit that hard to get it.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
Yeah, it's overlooked a lot. I mean it really is,
just because of how little they are. And you're talking
about things that people could donate that aren't necessarily going
to break the bank. And look, if you want to donate,
you know an Xbox or one of these things. That's fine.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
We would love that.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
However, if you want to just donate some smaller things
like that, that would be great as well.

Speaker 7 (25:45):
Yeah, cordless remotes for xboxes, PlayStations, anything like that. If
you got an old PlayStation game set at the house
and your kid's got a new PS five and it's
two or three years old. I mean, anything that the
kids can use in that hospital. Like I said, it
all stays local.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
And you never know.

Speaker 7 (26:03):
Every one of us have kids or grandkids that might
be in there one day, and you never know, you
might be in there with your kid or grandkid and
end up using something that gets donated.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
You got a Facebook. I'm presuming somebody can reach out
to you on there because there may be people listening
to us right now that maybe want to go to
one of these places I mentioned. We said you're going
to be collecting items there through the weekend, but you'll
be doing the ride itself December twentieth. You got to
get information out there on social media, guys.

Speaker 7 (26:29):
The actual Facebook page is Southern West Virginia Toy Ride
for CAMC Women's and Children's Hospital. The guys will start
picking up the boxes from the drop off locations on
the sixteenth, and the toy ride is actually December twentieth.
It's a good thing. I mean, we leave Daniel Boom
Park about twelve ten, twelve fifteen. We'll gather there between

(26:51):
ten and twelve and then we'll say prayer before we leave,
and then we'll come down to Boulevard Pennsylvania Avenue and
turn into the hospital right there in the loop. All
that's required to participate is one new unwrapped toy, something
you can drop off to the hospital when you go
through the loop. You'll have kids there, you'll have nurses there,
you'll have people from the hospital helping collect the toys.

Speaker 4 (27:12):
And you don't even have to get out of your car. No,
that's awesome.

Speaker 7 (27:15):
It's mostly this is mostly a motorcycle ride. We have
a few vehicles that all allowed to ride behind us
to pull the trailers and stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (27:25):
Over the years, we've had a.

Speaker 7 (27:27):
Twenty six foot enclosed trailer and I think another thirty
six foot enclosed trailer. We usually have three to four,
sometimes five enclosed trailers full of toys that goes.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
To that hospital.

Speaker 4 (27:38):
Now, if I bring some toys, DVD players, which I
do have. Can you teach me how to ride a motorcycle?

Speaker 3 (27:43):
Absolutely? Let's remember you're right, but I want to do
wheelies and everything I can do this, Yeah, you might
want to try that in a wheelchair first money, you
put me in bubble wrap and I'm ready to go.
All right, all right, go ahead, and I know you
do you want to say something that's we.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
Wrap it up.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
Yeah, I do.

Speaker 7 (27:59):
Got a couple of people i'd like to absolute help
outing this every year. Aaron at Charleston Blueprint Market, Appleatch
and Mini Storage, Michael Moore, also known as Burnout, Charles Morton, Bootlegger.
They've helped put out boxes while I've been at work.
J D. Stowers He's gonna probably help pull trailer this year.
He helped last year. He on stours body shopping customs.

(28:20):
And then you've got Gary Price. They all helped pull trailers,
and they all help with every bit of the swam
at work throughout the week and they step in and
do a big part of it.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
And this is something we did when I had you
guys before we let you go on the air last year.
And now now that I've got somebody here with me
and Coach Kid everybody's got a cool nickname. Okay, Now,
you gave me one last year. Do you remember what
mine last year was? Because I don't remember, But maybe
you can give me another one this year.

Speaker 4 (28:44):
All right?

Speaker 3 (28:44):
What is his nickname going to be? What are you
gonna call coach kidd? I think you already named it
a second ago?

Speaker 7 (28:49):
What was it?

Speaker 3 (28:49):
Coach Delicious or something like that? What'd you say?

Speaker 4 (28:52):
It was? Easy?

Speaker 3 (28:55):
All right? Okay, you gave him that one, okay, and
my would be what what was it last year? I
don't remember? All right, we gotta come up with another one.

Speaker 4 (29:04):
Yeah, there's a few names come with. He gave you one,
what's uh? I'd have to think about it.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
Yeah, come on, time's wasting here, Brody, I don't I
don't have one, Okay, all right, Well, there's a whole
lot of other people in the building that would love
to get it easy.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
We could just walk around the room now, yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
Including my boss Jared, who would say, how about unemployed?

Speaker 4 (29:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (29:28):
I'm employed, Dave.

Speaker 4 (29:29):
I think that's perfect.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
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Speaker 4 (33:36):
To get into on this show this morning. You're a
wacky dude. I'm very telling you didn't call that all right.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
You first reached out to me though about something that
you're very passionate about that you wanted to come on
the show and talk about today, and then I'll I'll
tell the folks how it evolved. Are you hosting the
whole show with me today? After that? But go ahead
and talk about this.

Speaker 4 (33:55):
It's merinatho is where I go now? And to church? Yeah,
to church and back in twenty fourteen they put on
a passion play and then they did another one a
little while after that called The Journey, and now we
have another one called and I'm drawing a blank, Holy
Kyle Ror Advent. There we go. Yeah, I know, yeah,

(34:18):
I know, Roor Advent. And basically it's surrounding the Lion,
the Wardrobe, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Have you seen
that movie, dude? It's amazing. As a matter of fact,
I just saw it last night and it's so good.
And it's loosely based on that, but there are some
things that you would recognize. Tons tons of time have

(34:40):
gone into this, just crazy amounts of time. Miss Tammy,
which is the pastor Darren's wife, have put it all together,
a ton of volunteers and the first show is coming
up tomorrow at seven o'clock, and I'm telling you pyrotechnics,
we're talking fog, We're talking great a fact, great performances

(35:01):
from all the children and the kids that we have
in there. I'm telling you it's a top not show.
You will not be disappointed, and if you are disappointed,
I'll give your money back from the door. Although it's free,
that's right, that's right.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
I mean when you talk about having all that for
a play like that or a production like that, this
is a long way from what I remember growing up
in church wearing my Dallas cowboy robe and which was
your first mistake. Yeah, yeah, that's a first mistake. But
it's come a long way parently.

Speaker 4 (35:30):
Well, you know. And again it's it's tons of hours.
It's tons of Corey, which is our graphic guy and
just all around dude of everything. He spent tons of
hours on things, and like I said, you will not
be disappointed. To the point where I've seen many plays
of the Passion play to the Journey to this one.

(35:51):
To me, this one is by far the best one
we've put together, especially with all the time, and it's
absolutely free to get in. It's at twenty nine to
ten Terrace, Marinatha Church is where it's going to be
held tomorrow. It'll be seven o'clock Sunday. If you want
to come, it's at ten o'clock during service, and then
the last two shows are Tuesday and Wednesday. And if

(36:13):
you have like ten or more you can reserve seats.
Can you just call the church?

Speaker 3 (36:18):
I just to say that's how they do.

Speaker 4 (36:20):
That is mfc net dot com. You can, you can
MFC dot net.

Speaker 3 (36:24):
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sixty six at gmail dot com. You know coach as
long as you and I have known each other. Yeah,
as far as I know, this is the first time.
And I might be wrong. Maybe we did something I
don't remember, uh somewhere, which is highly possible. I think
it was the first time we've ever been on microphone
at the same time.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
No, that is not correct. Okay, that's I did a
you were I think it was either your client or
you were a part of it out at Putnam Valley
and there was an art show that they were they
hung they hung like wire or and they put there
and I had you on the air at that time.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
Okay, all right, I forgot about that. Yeah, you're absolutely
right about it. They still trap up here. I gets
my mine's a little rusted. Yeah, it's okay, But I remember, yeah,
actually I do remember that.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Now.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
You were out there with the other guys, and I
was there with the Putnam County Tourism folks. I was
the head of the Putnam Tourism Board for a few terms,
and that's why I was out there for that, all right.
So but in a conventional setting, down studio setting, the
first time we ever started, all right, So, how did
the Charleston radio market get lucky enough to have you come.

(37:50):
Did we lose a.

Speaker 11 (37:51):
Bat or.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
What was?

Speaker 6 (37:54):
What?

Speaker 3 (37:55):
What was it alleged you to try?

Speaker 4 (37:56):
They just threw darts and went up, Okay, we'll take him.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
So you're a Michigan guy, obviously, as he's sitting here
with his Detroit Tigers baseball cap and your and your
Michigan quarters zip here. So what was it led you
to West Virginia?

Speaker 4 (38:10):
It was I was in Sue Saint Marie. Have you
heard of sus Saint Marie. It's up in the upper
peninsula of Michigan. And I was working as a production
director up there at wyss S FM. And a guy
that worked over at was it a B ninety four,
remember back in the day when that was there, And

(38:31):
he called me and he said, hey, they're looking for
an afternoon guy on the station electric and I said, okay.
So I sent him my stuff. And this was back
in the day when you would send cassette case and
your resume and a picture and all this, you know,
stuff that you took in the kitchen, you know, as
far as your buckshot or whatever. And I sent it
down and then the late Bill Shahan he gave me

(38:54):
a call and but this is the interesting part. Jeff Whitehead,
and I love him and respect him like a father.
He called me, Now, mind you, I'm in Michigan and
I don't have a Southern accent and all that, but
he called me and he said, Jeff's Jeff Wyhead. Now
I mean that in all due respect. But I remember
hearing his voice going what have I done? Where am

(39:17):
I going? All I could picture was him his cowboy
boots on the edge of the desk, cowboy hat and
a bolo with a cigar, going hey, we want you
to come on down here. He ain't from here, No,
it took me three planes to get down here, but
I came down and I remember this. I remember coming
out of the airport and coming around on Greenbrier to

(39:38):
get over on sixty four, and I remember seeing the
city and I remember it like it was yesterday, and
I went, this is it. This is where I want
to be. Really, I kid you not. I remember it,
and I still travel that obviously, and every time I
look at the skyline, I go, yep, this is where
I want. And I left a couple times, but it's
always brought me back, and I love it here.

Speaker 3 (39:58):
I love hearing stories about people who aren't from here,
but either adopt it, yeah, or people that leave and
come back, or they leave and are always trying to
work their way back home.

Speaker 4 (40:10):
And I've heard those stories before. I left first and
I went to UH. I went to Texas, Austin, Texas. Basically,
I went to Texas and turned on the light, grabbed
a sandwich and said, now I don't like it here.
I'm going to come on back home. It does and
I didn't like it, and it was it was culture
shocked to me. I was far from my family. It

(40:30):
was during the holidays. I'll give you this. I was
in Texas the weekend of Thanksgiving and I was back
here in West Virginia on New Year's Day, moved all
my stuff, everything in the back of you haul. I
called up the radio station. They said, yep, come on back.
Matter of fact, animal he took over the show, or
was going to. And then I made the phone call

(40:52):
and they're like, okay, coaches coming back. You can't have
the show.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
That's amazing. It's amazing.

Speaker 4 (40:57):
He still talks to you. I know it is. Yeah.
And another time I went and I went to be
production director at Kiss FM ninety two to one Kiss
FM in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and that was working out. I
loved it there. It was nice, but I was married.
I was married at the time, and she wanted to
go back home and my again, theory family first, okay,

(41:19):
And it wasn't It wasn't like, oh, I gotta quit this.
And I realized one thing, those are bigger markets than here.
But after I've realized those markets mean nothing compared to
what you're happy with. And I was happy with being
in Charleston, West Virginia, and I'm still happy here and
I will not move for anything else. I will stay home.

Speaker 3 (41:38):
All right. Yeah, well that's good stuff and I love
to hear those stories. So how long total were you
I mean not counting when you left came back. How
long total were you on the air in Charles?

Speaker 4 (41:49):
Twenty seven years? Twenty seven years? All right?

Speaker 3 (41:51):
What was it about this crazy circus that we're in
that led you in as a young kid of a
boy that made you say I want to do that
because we've all got those stories. I got mine, listeners
have heard mine, but I want to hear yours.

Speaker 4 (42:03):
What is so?

Speaker 3 (42:03):
What was it about this medium that appealed to you
to begin with?

Speaker 4 (42:06):
Well, the the the interesting thing that the medium didn't
do anything for me, and I'll and I'll talk about
that in a second. But radio was just one of
those things. I remember hearing rick o'she I remember hearing
Scott Shannon, he was down there. He came to my school,
did speech class. And I got my first taste when
he came into my speech class because they brought this

(42:27):
little recorder and on the recorder was the one O two.
It was w IOG one O two jingle Weather jingle
and you had to what we call in the business,
a don it. So it has a beginning has just music,
and then it has an out with another jingle, and
so he he said, anybody want to try it? So
I went up and I nailed it, you know, from

(42:48):
and I didn't know the time. I just did weather
and I was like hmm. And then I decided, you
know what, I want to be an intern. I woke
up one day. I woke up and I said, I
think I want to be an intern at a radio station.
And I went into the first radio station and they said, no,
you have to have an aircheck, you have to have this.
I'm like, I don't know anything about that stuff. And
then I went to another one. It was Cars one

(43:08):
O eight, went there and they said, yeah, we're happening
to you know, looking for a production intern. And that's
what I became. But it was perfect for me because
I lived at home. I was twenty one years old,
and I ate it. I drank it, I slept it.
I was there from six in the morning till almost midnight,
went back home, got four hours of sleep, back up,
and I'm talking springing out of bed to go do

(43:32):
this thing. And all I was was an intern. But
it worked out perfect because I was home and my
parents would help pay for gas. And I was in
college at the time, working at the w MCC, which
was the college radio station. It was Mock Community College.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
That's and all of us I think that do this
and have a passion about it, are the same way
I drove at one point for one job, I drove
thirty seven and a half miles one way to make
minimum wage. Oh yeah, that's either dedication or that's just
freaking crazy.

Speaker 4 (44:00):
Yeah, it becomes a passionate. And even though I've been
out of radio, and as you said, we'll talk about that,
but I've been out of radio for a year and
a half. I miss it, and the thing was is
that it really just became about family. But at the
same time, it's in you and I've heard it, and
it will stay in you until your last day. You

(44:20):
will always have that radio bug.

Speaker 3 (44:21):
Kind of like a fungus.

Speaker 4 (44:22):
Yeah, pretty much a back.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
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then Sunday, the NFL takes over the WCHS Sports Network.

Speaker 4 (45:57):
Add one on.

Speaker 8 (45:58):
Five eighty WCHS it's the Chargers visiting the Chiefs, and
on fourteen ninety WSWW enjoy a full doubleheader the Cleveland
Browns at the Chicago Bears, followed by the Detroit Lions
at the La Rams. Crucial snaps every week free over
the air on the WCCHS Sports Network.

Speaker 14 (46:18):
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Speaker 3 (47:00):
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I always appreciate about him was both he and Libby
maintaining professionalism while crying with us, showing their vulnerability, humanity
and the love of country. The morning after September eleventh,
that will stay with me always, God blessed Coach to text.

Speaker 4 (47:35):
Brother, I'll tell you that was the hardest part of
radio was that because we couldn't figure out when to
laugh again?

Speaker 3 (47:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (47:41):
Can you imagine that? Not knowing when can I laugh?
When can we get back to normal? Sea? It was
a problem for all of us, and we got to
that point where it was like, let's just cry and
work out this out together.

Speaker 3 (47:51):
All right, we'd have a little fun with you now, sir, Okay,
are you ready for this?

Speaker 4 (47:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (47:55):
Back when I used to be every Friday, I would
bring in a different guest host and just you have
them kind of hosted show. And when this just so
happened today that you had availability. So we're gonna play
ten questions.

Speaker 4 (48:06):
Here we go.

Speaker 3 (48:07):
You're ready, Here we go. You've been on the other
end of stop. Now it's your train. You're ready. And
as always for our listeners at home, no wageram all right?
Are you ready coffee? Your team coffee? If you are
a Brady Bunch character, which one would you be?

Speaker 4 (48:21):
Bobby?

Speaker 3 (48:22):
What's the one hidden talent that you have that people
would be surprised to learn about you?

Speaker 4 (48:26):
I can whistle through my teeth.

Speaker 3 (48:30):
Okay, your best friend in fourth grade it would be
Dave Blackburn. What's your middle name?

Speaker 4 (48:37):
Earl?

Speaker 3 (48:39):
Destined to be in West.

Speaker 4 (48:40):
Virginia with an E at the end.

Speaker 3 (48:44):
Oh for them? That's got money?

Speaker 7 (48:47):
All right?

Speaker 3 (48:48):
All right, you're driving across the country and you can
only listen to one artist? Who is it?

Speaker 4 (48:53):
Bon Jovi?

Speaker 3 (48:55):
Had you not been on the radio or now you're
in the school system, we'll close with that. What career
would you have taken?

Speaker 4 (49:01):
Bible philosophy? Your first car? A Sunbird, a Pontiac Sunbird.

Speaker 3 (49:07):
A film you can do the majority of lines from.

Speaker 4 (49:09):
Oh that's easy. That A few good men?

Speaker 3 (49:12):
Last one, knowing that you're a huge Michigan guy, which
we talked about earlier, how much money would it take
for you to stand on the Capitol steps dressed in
all Ohio state gear?

Speaker 4 (49:24):
Millions? Millions?

Speaker 3 (49:27):
You have completed ten questions. Congratulations, So tell people what
it is that you're doing in the school system now
and you're off today. By the way, you're not skipping,
you're off today.

Speaker 4 (49:35):
Yeah, like Mohawks said, dude, it's they're they're on pins
and needles about calling off school or going to school.
All right, but yeah, I'm driving a school bus. And
one of the reasons why I wanted to do that
was when my son Christopher is off, then I'm off,
and I wanted to spend some more time with family.

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This year was my first summer off, and dude, I'm
telling you to have a whole summer off. It was incredible.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
Just say, dude, that's all you get it. I mean,
because year round is busy in radio, but especially during
the summer summer it's.

Speaker 4 (50:09):
A whole And it was funny because a lot of
people that I know were like, oh, summer's coming. I
would dread it like I don't want something.

Speaker 3 (50:16):
I got to go and we have. Don't get me wrong,
we love doing it, but we also love our.

Speaker 4 (50:21):
Time absolutely absolutely. I mean, as you said, you just
love laying on the couch and sometimes that is few
and far between, just chilling out. But yeah, I'm driving
a school bus. I do love it. I love the
interaction with kids.

Speaker 5 (50:31):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (50:32):
Sometimes it can be very very challenging where I kind
of want to just take the bus off a cliff,
but I don't. I don't hr he's kidding. I'm kidding. No,
he's just kidding. When you're a bus driver, you have
all kinds of hats on. You know, you're disciplinary, you're
watching in the mirror, you're driving social worker, all of that.
It is very, very very challenging. But we get your

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kids safe and and and I know I'm biased when
I say this real quick, but I will say this,
I don't think the public really knows what bus drivers do.
I think we are just known as bus drivers. We
are very much responsible for the safety of your kids.
And there are a lot of things we have to
do on the bus to make sure we don't have

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an E. I don't have an eight on my bus.
It's just me, So I'm looking in that mirror constantly.
Other merors I have like ten to fifteen mers I
have to work at and try to make sure navigate
the road, navigate what I have, and you know who's
in behind me.

Speaker 3 (51:29):
All right, Well, buddy, it's been a pleasure having you
on the show again. You're always welcome here next time,
the next time that there is a snow day, you're
more than welcome to come back.

Speaker 7 (51:36):
Is that it?

Speaker 3 (51:36):
That's it?

Speaker 4 (51:37):
Oh my gosh, Well, I mean you can do talk.

Speaker 3 (51:39):
Line if you are all right real quick, we'll talk
about you think at marinathas okay, while we brought down
here real quick.

Speaker 4 (51:44):
It is advent. It is a roar advent. First show
is coming up tomorrow at Maranatha twenty nine to ten.
You don't want to miss it. It's absolutely free ten
or more. You can get reservations to get in again,
absolutely free. First show is tomorrow. Next show is Sunday
at ten, and then Tuesday and Wednesday, both at seven
o'clock at Marinatha. You don't want to miss it.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
Coach Kidd, been a pleasure having you on a show.
Mark you DJ. He's coming up with talk line. What
you got Buddy?

Speaker 11 (52:09):
Eleven thirty Steamer Lease eleven oh six, Styrewalt, It's Friday.

Speaker 3 (52:12):
He's in the house.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
Ten thirty three.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
Brad McElhoney on Justice and Capito in the ACA. Ryan
Schmels from DC off the top. We're gonna have a
lot of Americans that don't have healthcare come here. In
a few days, so we'll get into that whole topic.
Meadows and Wilson coming up with talk Line. I will
see you later today on Metro News Midday with thirteen
News and Tonight Live anchor Amanda Baron and Me powered
by a Selango Law. We start off with the Governor

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top of the show today. I'll be back on Monday
on the local show and again the folks from Clay
Center will stop by for that. Thanks all to our
guest today, Thanks to coach Kid am Nicholson, our producer.
I will see you later today. Till then, have fun
and love somebody.

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