The Dave Allen Show – Festival Season, OktoberWest, and the Future of West Virginia

On this episode of The Dave Allen Show, Dave kicks off a packed Wednesday with guests previewing two major Charleston events — FestivFALL with Festival Charleston’s Zack Harold, and OktoberWest with Charleston Urban Works’ Rick Cavender and Lauren Hatcher. Later, Chris Miller, auto executive and former gubernatorial candidate, joins to discuss his upcoming Howl-O-Ween Pet Adoption at Dutch Miller Subaru and shares bold insights on West Virginia’s economic future, population challenges, and energy opportunities.

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We got a lot to get to on the show today,
Wednesday edition of the Show. When to start with a
couple news items. One of this that came out yesterday
evening out of d C. More Capito is going to
be the new US attorney for southern West Virginia and

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state Senator Mike Stewart. The service out of here in
Kinawa County has been confirmed as general counsel for the
US Department of Health and Human Services. Also throw it
in there, Jefferson County Prowse Secutor Matt Harvey is going
to be the new US attorney for the Northern District.
We'll get into all that a little bit later on,
but it does mean that the Senate seat held by
Mike Stewart District seven will be available, and we'll have
more as I said on that coming up a little

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bit later on. Also on today's show, Chris Miller is
going to join this former gubernatorial candidate and auto dealer
here in West Virginia.

Speaker 6 (02:07):
He's going to join us.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Actually it's got places outside West Virginia's he's going to
join us. We'll talk a little politics, but he's actually
here to talk about an event that is going to
be happening in one of his dealerships, Dutch Miller Subaru,
and that's going to be happening next week. It has
to do with animals. So if you know it's got
to do with animals, I'm in So we'll talk to
him about that. Rick Cavan from Charleston Urban Works will
be stopping by as they are getting ready for October

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West this Saturday over on the West Side. We'll get
into that. Also, another news item, this twelve car pile
up on the Turnpike near the Ox near the Mossy
exit last night, and this time they got it right
as far as not leaving people stranded out there, using
the detours, the trouble gates, so on and so forth.
All good news story posted about at wv metronews dot com.

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We'll get to that a little bit later on and
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Away the Bosteal Cooper serving as our producer today, Festive
Fall is here.

Speaker 6 (03:07):
Zach Harold joins us talk about a good morning.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
Welcome to the morning, Dave, how are you?

Speaker 6 (03:12):
How's that for an intro?

Speaker 5 (03:13):
Think?

Speaker 6 (03:13):
I got enough staff thrown in there?

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Pretty good.

Speaker 6 (03:15):
There's a lot going on, man, it's a busy weekend.
It's a busy weekend.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Now, you got so many different things going on, But
I want to talk about Festive Fall because you're the
new director of Festivall Now we're talking Festive Fall, which
is a part of festival. That's right, all right, Burning
on the job, on the Joel Trial by Fire as
they save my friend, all right. So what you got
going on?

Speaker 7 (03:35):
Well, tonight is the official kickoff to Festivefall. We had
a pre festival eve drum circle last night, but tonight
is the big kickoff with three things which I know
you've appeared on in the past, Jeff Shirley's Speaker series.
That's gonna be seven pm. Tonight at the Capitol Market.
People don't know. Jeff always picks such a good lineup

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of folks. Bob Thompson, the Mountain Stage piano player, the
Clay Centers astrophysicist Shannon Silverman, and then the community organizer
Mavery Davis. They're going to talk about their lives in
the framework that Jeff created where they talk about their
first however they interpret that yea, their favorite and their future.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
And that's a great event, by the way. I mean,
it really really is. They've been doing it for a
number of years. And it is interesting because Jeff doesn't
give you guidance as to what the first is. It
could be like what your first job. It could be
your first anything, and then your favorite and again related
to anything that you want it to be, and then

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your future and everybody, the three people all interpret that differently,
and Jeff doesn't give you any guidance, which is okay,
it's okay.

Speaker 7 (04:45):
It makes it more special in some ways. Like the
example Jeff always gives is when he had Kenny Bass
on the show.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
Kenny talked about.

Speaker 7 (04:54):
Christmas his first, his favorite, and you know, it's so
interesting to it's a way to get into the lives
of people that we know around town. And that's one
of our few ticketed events. Most of the stuff we
do this weekend is free. But if you want to
get tickets for three things tonight at seven pm, you
can go to Festival Charleston.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
That's Festival two l's Charleston dot com.

Speaker 6 (05:18):
All right, and so that's just a kickoff.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
That's the kickoff, all right. Well, we're gonna keep rolling
right along.

Speaker 7 (05:23):
Tomorrow at seven thirty, we have an evening with the
West Virginia Dance Company that's the state's only professional dance company,
like amazing modern choreography. Also that's going to be at
the Culture Center, also a ticketed event. You can get
tickets online at our website. That they're going to be
featuring a piece composed by a West Virginia native, doctor

(05:45):
Richard Grimes. Rolling into Friday, we have Magnolia Boulevard, which
is like a blues rock band, Lake Street drive to
dashy Trucks, Bondi rate type stuff. They're going to be
down at Slack Plaza. It's going to be a great show.
Starts at seven point thirty. And that one was free,
family friendly. At the same time. Well, at six at

(06:07):
Taylor Books, the State.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
Poet Laurie at Mark Harshman.

Speaker 7 (06:10):
It's going to be hosting an evening with the Poets
featuring Jesse Graves and some young poets from the Poetry
Out Loud organization. Just a jam packed. But then Saturday
is when it really kicks into high gear with the
Harvest Art Fair over at the Capital Market. People are

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probably most familiar with the Capitol Street Art Fair that
happens during the summer during Festival. This is kind of
a miniature version of that. But we've got thirty artisans
over there who are cann be selling their stuff. We've
got live music every hour on the hour, some great
bands lined up for that one. It's a good place
to get some early holiday shof and taking care of that.

(06:52):
That's running from ten to six on Saturday at the
Capitol Market. We're also going to have walking tours and
bike tours of downtown. The walking tour starts at ten
thirty they're at the Leaf Street Triangle, and the bike
tour starts at eleven. Those are so cool because you know,
I've worked downtown my entire career, but the things you

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walk past every day you kind of take for granted,
and getting somebody like Naomi Base who's going to lead
the walking tour, and then Sam Niguard who's leading the
bike tour. The things that they point out to you
that you just take for granted in your own hometown,
it's it's it's so illuminating. Later that evening, six pm,
we've got a Shakespeare remix at Folklore Music Extrange, really

(07:37):
cool music store there on the corner of what was
that Summers and Lee but the Rustic Mechanicals A Shakespeare
troop from Clarksburger coming in to do a remon Yeah, yeah, exactly.
He's doing Jason Well, he's doing a remix of Macbeth
called the Macbeth's It's a two person show. And then
they're going to do Shakespeare Oke.

Speaker 6 (07:58):
So Shakespeare, you got that Shakespeare OKIEK.

Speaker 7 (08:03):
Saw you English majors come out, come out for that one.
And then we got I'm looking forward to this City
Center Dead at slackl I'm looking forward to all this,
but City Center Dead at Slack Plaza. That's John Ingram,
you know, local musician, bass player for Mountain Stage. He's
got his band Dead Center. They're going to start playing
at Slack Plaza at six pm until ten pm A

(08:25):
Grateful Dead tribute show.

Speaker 5 (08:27):
I heard.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
I was listening to John yesterday on Hotline with a
Coop and a Weekly when I was driving home.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
Yeah. I'll tell you so.

Speaker 7 (08:35):
Back when I first started this job, and you know,
I started getting my feet under me and seeing the schedule,
I saw they had a Grateful Dead tribute show playing.
I was like, hey, John, you guys need a Manlin
player for a friend of the Devil.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
And I was joking. He texted me a couple of
days ago and he was like, you ready to go?

Speaker 7 (08:53):
And I was like, oh, shoot, I need to practice.

Speaker 4 (08:57):
So I am both looking forward to in.

Speaker 6 (09:00):
Okay at the same time. At the same time.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
Can We're talking with Zach Carrold from Festive Fall, but
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Speaker 6 (09:16):
All right, continue on.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
All right?

Speaker 7 (09:18):
Yeah, well, and then Sunday, final day of festifall the
Harvest Art Fair is back again from twelve to five
with you know those great artisans, local artisans selling their stuff,
more live music every hour on the hour. That's again
from twelve to five at the Capital Market. And then
the Carriage Trail Leafwalk at the Sunrise Carriage Trail there

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across from downtown. That runs from one to four pm.
And then what's so cool about that is, you know,
anybody familiar with the Carriage Trail, it's just that nice
winding walk up the side of the hill there. We're
gonna have different live performances scattered around every turn of that.
As you walk along, you're kind of encountering different musicians,

(10:04):
spoken word stuff, theater, dance. It's going to be really special.
At the bottom of the trail, we're going to have
this is brand new Force the Groundworks stage down there,
sponsored sponsored by Groundworks. We're gonna have Matthew Jack for
It's Hot Jazz band which is like a Dixieland jazz
type thing, and Minor Swing which is a Django Reinhardt

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style jazz band there at the bottom of the Carria Trail.
At the top, Jeff Pearson of Charleston's Public Office of
Public art is going to be building a sculpture out
of donated stuffed animals.

Speaker 6 (10:37):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (10:39):
I'm interested to see how that comes comes through. He's
got an incredible he's We've hit every thrift store between
you know here and here in Dunbar trying to get
stuffed animals for this. And he texted me last night
he's like ready, and he sent me this picture of
a giant pile of stuffed animals in his office. It's
gonna be cool, Jeff. Everything Jeff does is cool, but

(11:02):
I'm having a hard time picturing it. But if you
want to contribute stuffed animals to the sculpture, you can
bring him with you to the carriage trail on Sunday
from one to four. Don't expect to get him back.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
I think, Okay, once they're sculpted, they can't be unsculpted.

Speaker 4 (11:17):
I guess I've heard there will be a nail gun involved.

Speaker 6 (11:21):
Lord, so you're gonna get the pita for stuffed animals
involved in this.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
I don't know. I don't know. It's going to be cool.
It's going to be cool, but I'm having a hard
time picturing it. But Jeff has a vision. I trust
his visions.

Speaker 6 (11:36):
Artistic types always have a vision.

Speaker 7 (11:38):
And what's cool is we're also going to have and
if people want to come to the Carristral Leafwalk, if
you know anything about that area, that little parking lot
there at the bottom is going to fill up fast.
And the best thing to do is probably to try
to find parking at the top where there's a little
bit more space, or find place to park downtown. There's
a city garage right across from the South Side Bridge.

(11:59):
You could park there and just make it. It's an easy, little.

Speaker 6 (12:01):
Streetsy little Yeah, it's just another fard off.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
So and where's the best place to get We've done
a lot of information at the people.

Speaker 6 (12:08):
Where's the best place?

Speaker 7 (12:10):
The best place to find all this information is festival
Charleston dot com. First of all, two l's Charleston dot
com or Facebook. We have everything on our Facebook page.
We have all the events are listed as events on Facebook,
so you can see all the information and see which
of your friends are going if you want a carpool.

Speaker 6 (12:28):
All right, there you go.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
All right, give me a final thirty seconds here on
just the selling of festival. Why just give me a
final little summary and why people should take this in.

Speaker 7 (12:40):
Sure, The tagline of our organization is a city becomes
a work of art, But the tagline for Festifall is
and I think it encapsulates it so well.

Speaker 4 (12:47):
A season becomes a work of art.

Speaker 7 (12:49):
West Virginia's beautiful all year round, but it really shows
itself off in fall, and this is a way to
celebrate that natural beauty while also celebrating the creativity of
the people who live here. And so much creativity, whether
we're talking about visual art, dance, music. We're so blessed
with so many talented people, and Festivefall is a way

(13:10):
to show that off.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
All right, Zach Harold, I appreciate you being here, my friend,
having me good luck with everything, because I'd like to
if you go, if you've got one of those step
counters on your wrist, I want to see what it's
gonna look like come Sunday night Monday morning.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
I gotta get my fit bit out of the drill.

Speaker 6 (13:24):
Well, I call mine the fat bit. So that's that's
what I got, Hey.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
Jack, I lives in a drawer.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
Well, I told I told the listeners this this a
real quick story. Because nobody makes fun of Dave more
than Dave makes fun of Day sure. Uh so, I'm
a I'm a wristwatch guy. I got several and I
have one that is supposed to operate, you know, just
on your body. Enter mine died and I took it
it did it did and I and this is a

(13:51):
true story, I took it to my my buddy Scott
uh down Logan. I still go to the hometown jewelry
store down there. So I go to my buddy Scott,
whom I went to high school with, owns a jewelry store.
And he said, do you know how kinetic? That's word
I was looking for. I'm wearing to watch today. He said,
do you know how lethargic you have to be to
kill a kinetic watch? I was like, shut up, Scott,

(14:14):
shut up, take my up. Yeah, all right, I appreciate it. Zach,
thanks a lot, buddy, thanks a lot. Hang out with
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Speaker 6 (17:16):
Lauren and Rick, how you doing, guys? Well, how are
you doing?

Speaker 5 (17:20):
Sir?

Speaker 6 (17:21):
Did I call her the wrong name?

Speaker 8 (17:22):
No? No, because we try to coordinate when we're going
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Speaker 6 (17:26):
So here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
I am terrible with names, and I've had Lauren on
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First rate, which is actually really impressive.

Speaker 13 (17:34):
And that's impressed.

Speaker 6 (17:35):
Yeah, I don't don't.

Speaker 3 (17:36):
I guess it's all the sports I watched or something.
I remember last names.

Speaker 8 (17:39):
But you guess I'd be working started if you didn't
remember my name.

Speaker 14 (17:42):
Yeah, because I'm here pretty and you and I.

Speaker 6 (17:44):
Go way way ten years, way back, ten ten to ten.
It's been ten years now.

Speaker 13 (17:49):
So y'all met when you were like nine, Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 8 (17:53):
Yeah, Dave was David was twenty nine.

Speaker 9 (17:55):
I was nine.

Speaker 15 (17:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
We went through actually, uh, mister and I went through
leadership West Virginia together. Had a lot of fun. But probably,
and I'll say this if if listeners get an opportunity
to do leaderships, the single best thing I ever did
in my life. And I mean, it was amazing that
Pam Ferris, who just recently I guess retired, just does

(18:17):
a great job with that. And it was, without a doubt,
the best thing career wise and personally I ever did
in my life. Formative I would say, I mean, to
be able to go around this state and be able
to meet people.

Speaker 6 (18:29):
I did not win. How many people in our class?

Speaker 3 (18:32):
That was like fifty five people in our class. I
only knew one person going in. Now, others I knew
their names because Mayor Goodwin was in our class and
Jim Hoyer. I knew their names, but I didn't know them.
There's one guy that I went to high school with
that was in the class, and he and I didn't
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(18:55):
and I went to high school together and didn't know
each other. Proved, you know, disproving the theory that everybody
and Logan knows.

Speaker 6 (19:00):
Everybody because he was a year or so.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
Behind, right, I didn't know him in high school. We
met at Leadership West. That's so cool if you get
an opportunity to do that, all right. So I was
talking earlier to Zach Carroll about to festival which is
going on. And I say this almost every week in
the show, Guys, if you can't find something to do
with Charleston, it really the Canal Valley, right, that's on you.

Speaker 6 (19:21):
That's gonna be going on. It kicks off the night,
runs to Sunday.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
But we got a little party with a couple thousand
of our closest friends, so on the West side this weekend, talking.

Speaker 8 (19:28):
About right in October West.

Speaker 14 (19:29):
I'm actually Lauren is our event coordinator now, okay, so
I want to let her feel every one and on
all the details. I'll talk more about our organization and
why it's important to come, but I definitely want to
let Laren you're up.

Speaker 13 (19:38):
Yeah, well so, thank you. So October West on Saturday,
one of, if not the largest and only october Fest
celebration in the state. We have over one hundred craft
beer selections that you can sample throughout the day, some
really good food vendors lined up, some great entertainment. We

(19:58):
have DJJ there all day. Who you know him, you
love him. If you don't know him, you will love him.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
It's gonna say if you don't love him, that goes
in a different direction. You don't love him, there's something
wrong with you because.

Speaker 13 (20:09):
He's Yeah, he's great. We've got Damn Near and hot
Jazz on the main stage. Those will both just be fantastic,
good energies for the stage. As you're talking with friends,
the weather is looking like a perfect fall day.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
Here I said, more than what you would think of
with fall. But still it's not eighty five or nights
seventies high.

Speaker 13 (20:31):
Yeah, no rain, knock on wood, It's gonna be great. Yeah.
So you can get a ticket, you get in, you
get a cup for your beer, and then you can
walk around sample as much as you want, as many
different types as you want. I've said a million times
at this point, we've got like twenty different pumpkin ales
and they all are different, but they all have a
good fall energy to them. We've got our October West

(20:54):
Games going on over there in front of the Charlie
Hamilton Jupiter the Mural there, and we've got Stein holding
keg rolling.

Speaker 6 (21:09):
I mean, that's something.

Speaker 13 (21:10):
It'll be a blast.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
That's the thing I remember from last year when I
was there, one of the things that really stuck at
It's all great, but I remember going over and we
watched the keg rolling in the different competitions and stuff
like that.

Speaker 6 (21:22):
It was awesome.

Speaker 14 (21:23):
It's it's always surprising the number of people who end
up signing up for those.

Speaker 8 (21:26):
I mean, it's it's a party in itself.

Speaker 13 (21:28):
Oh yeah, it's an absolute, absolute hood of a time.
I mean, we've got people dressed up in costumes. It's
just an absolute blast.

Speaker 6 (21:36):
Yeah, it is, it is. We had a texture.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
Somebody asked about other beverages that they don't drink alcohol.

Speaker 6 (21:41):
There's plenty of other stuff.

Speaker 8 (21:41):
It there's some non alcoholic beers I believe that are
on the list.

Speaker 6 (21:46):
Somebody should have.

Speaker 14 (21:47):
Somebody will have water we'll have We'll have there's these
huge tubs of water that'll be throughout the entire just
like a foam.

Speaker 6 (21:53):
We have like every so.

Speaker 8 (21:54):
Many feet, we have a tub of water.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
You can grab it up for food.

Speaker 13 (21:56):
Yeah, and it's three And we also do if you're
either not a your drinker or a designated driver, have
a designated driver ticket where you can show up and
get in for free, and we'll give you a risk
band and you can still enjoy all of the festivities
even if you're not a big beer guy.

Speaker 6 (22:10):
And the food, the food vendors.

Speaker 13 (22:12):
Oh yeah, you can enjoy the food vendors. Yeah, we've
got quite a few good lined up, good ones lined up,
a good time.

Speaker 14 (22:19):
Yeah, of course you're the ticket price, the fifty five
for VIP, forty five for general emission. Of course, you
get the extra hour for VIP starting at three o'clock.
General emission starts at four o'clock. You'll have a we
have a VIP beer tent, excuse me, a table for
circtly for the VIP ticket holders. But that ticket price
does not include the food vendors. Make sure you bring

(22:39):
your debit card or your cash because the food vendors
we have that they're taking payment separately.

Speaker 6 (22:44):
So yeah, right, it's and it's just always a good time. Roughly.
I mean I said thousands of people, but I mean people.
You know, it's not.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
A it's not like a one time everything. Some people
will come in, drift in for twenty minutes and leave,
some people stay the entire time. Roughly how many people
to Gentiliz you roughly?

Speaker 14 (23:00):
Year to year? It has fluctuated. I think the hot
the the highest attendance we ever had. I don't remember
the year, but it was like twenty two hundred people,
and then the lowest we had was during a football game,
which is why we moved this event this year because
it was during a w football game and the lowest
I believe was like eleven hundred. So it just it
just depends on what's going on that.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Particularly's and that's incredible and when you think about, you know,
bringing in all those people, there's a reason why it's
it's on that part of town because the whole idea
is too and that's why it's in the name October
West to try to get people there to see all
the things that are going on over there. And Rick,
I'll let you talk about that.

Speaker 6 (23:35):
A little bit.

Speaker 14 (23:36):
Yeah, so I mean our organization, of course, Dave, I've
been on to talk about the evolution of our organization
over time several times. But Charleston Urban Works, our organization
formerly known as Charleston Main Streets, our mission excuse me,
our mission is is solely focused on the urban neighborhood
business districts here in the capital city, certain ones, and

(23:56):
you know, we're a unique organization in that way. The
services we offer in our object is within our mission
are very unique. We really focus on business improvement and
advancement in small business of course, public space enhancement projects,
events and marketing in business marketing, and then increasing engagement
across the entire community. And that really just means of

(24:17):
getting people more engaged, more involved with what we do,
and then you know, vice versa. We have been doing
this work collectively since two thousand and two. We started
out on the East End. A few years later we
started out on the West side. Years after that we
merged to create Charleston Main Streets. Actually, the year I
met you, we were talking about ten years ago, was
the year we did that. And then just over the
last year and a half we rebranded to Charleston Urban Works,

(24:39):
and we actually just expanded our work into Kanall City.
Through a really incredible partnership and support through the City
of Charleston, we were able to expand our work into
kanas City and we're building that foundation of the work
we've been doing for several years on the East End
and West side, we're now building that foundation in Kanall City.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
What kind of plan I mean, I know it's still earlier,
you just building the foundation now and you talk about
the partnership with the city, but what kind of things
could you see in KANNAUSO. Well, I mean it's it
would be similar, I guess to the East and West,
but they're geographically they're they're different.

Speaker 8 (25:09):
Very different.

Speaker 14 (25:09):
Yeah, And the approach we've always taken, we're taking the
same approach over there that we have in our other
districts over time, right what we're doing. As a matter
of fact, we just had our first working group meeting
over there, comprised of all small business owners in Kanall City.
The entire groups comprised of business owners and we've been
Shannon who's on our staff, she's our director over there.
She's been working really hard to develop an enormous database

(25:32):
with every single property and business and property owner and
business owner over there collecting data. You know, this is
the first time it's been this has been attempted over there,
so there's a lot of data you got to collect
before you could actually know what work needs to be done.
And now we've started survey work over there like we've
done on the West Side here recently, we're surveying the
business owners to figure out what their needs are. So
that's all in process. That's going to take some time.

(25:54):
We've come a long way in the last almost six
months and we know by the middle of November we'll
be to release some project plans solely based on the
needs of the end user of the business owners themselves,
and so you'll see some really cool marketing initiatives coming
out of that. You'll see some ideas for events. You'll
see ideas for shop you know, to expand our shop
local initiative, our our Passport card over there, stuff like that.

(26:16):
Our FA Sage grant program. That's another really big point
to make. Our Facade grant program is in part funded
through events like this that we put on. We are
able to provide funding really important funding. Too small business
owners to help you know, new doors, new windows, brick pointing,
new signage, public art on their building, you know, outdoor

(26:36):
dining spaces, that kind of thing. We match funds. That's
that private business owners put into their invest into their
properties through through that Facade grant program. So that gives
you an idea of the work that we do and
why this work is so important and why coming to
events like October West helps support and fund that.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
Yeah, we want to make sure that want people to
come out and have a good time, whether it's here,
we do foam in a dome earlier in the year too,
But we want to know there's a reason for our
rest and that's and that's and that's what that I mean,
it's so you know, come out and have some drinks
or not, or have some food and play the games whatever.
But there's a reason why that you're doing all this
and just to put the money back into Charleston.

Speaker 13 (27:08):
Yeah, And I mean when you're down there in the
Elk City district over there on the west side, you
can stand in a circle in the middle Washington Street
and see a bunch of businesses that we've had a
hand in helping promote or create the spaces that they have,
and so that's something that I want to plug is
a lot of the Elk City businesses are open Saturday
before October West and so if you want to pop

(27:31):
into Kinship Goods, you want to get a hot dog
from Dancing Dog, you need to get your hair cut,
you want to go over to the Wine Down, they're
all open leading up to the event, and then some
of them will be also open during the event. So
we really that's the whole point of having it over
there is we want people to be able to wander
in and out of the spaces and see them and
see the work that we've done to create the public

(27:54):
the public space that is for the people of Charleston,
literally by the people of Charleston, because they're giving us
that money through these ticket sales. So it's it's really
cool to just be able to stand there and look
around and see all the people that are helping make
all these things happen.

Speaker 3 (28:09):
And of course all of our stations are going to
be there as well. We're looking forward to it. I'll
be there with ninety eight seven Mountain On. I think
I'm going to roll in there about about three or
four I'm scheduled to be there at five, but I
don't want to miss a good time. I may be
there just a little bit earlier. Good but you know
V one hundred, I know Steve is going to be there,
kws the beat. We're all going to be down there,

(28:29):
so we're looking forward to it, right. We love the
partnership we have with you guys too.

Speaker 8 (28:33):
We can't tell you how much we appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (28:34):
I'll say that, all right.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
Give us the information available on social media, websites and ticketing.

Speaker 14 (28:40):
Charlestondurbanworks dot Org is where you can go to buy
your tickets. You can also go straight to the October
West Facebook page and the event page as well. All
the information about everything happening in real time is or
on those pages.

Speaker 6 (28:51):
All right, we'll see you guys there.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
And we had a texture said one business I'd love
to see come back forty years later, Chris is hot Dogs.

Speaker 14 (28:56):
Well, so what I remember the day when Chris is
The days when Chris hod Dog was there.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
Coop's to be busy, right, I was gas. Do you
remember Christmas hot Dogs on the West Side?

Speaker 14 (29:06):
It was Gonzoe Burger after it was Christmas hod Dogs
that's actually a great example of a project that we
were extremely involved quickly. You may remember back in this
has been several years ago, but the owners of me
Cassina Damore, which unfortunately is now closed as well, they're
the ones who wanted that building to put this Burger
join in. And I was able in my role with

(29:26):
Charleston Main Streets at the time, now Urban Works was
able to directly connect the property owner at the time
who still owned who's the family of Christmas hot Dogs,
with an investor who was interested in buying the building.
The now owner of that building. They they were able
to work it out. They were able to buy it.
They used historic tax credits to restore that building. If
you look, I mean it has a completely different look now,

(29:46):
but they used all historic standards to renovate and restore
that building both floors, first and second floor. And of
course we were able to directly connect the business owner
to come in and open up Gonzo Berger And of
course they did a lot of work to the inside
to get it to a it looks the way it
looks today. So that's an example of the work that
we do somewhat behind the scenes because a lot of
that's confidential.

Speaker 6 (30:06):
But we're here is networking. It's connecting people, you know
while we're here, and that's why you're in there.

Speaker 13 (30:11):
And everybody that's touched that building has made an impact
on it, whether they've come and gone or stay, it
all has a really cool impact on the community there, all.

Speaker 6 (30:18):
Right, Rick, Kevin de Larneatch, appreciate you both being here.

Speaker 8 (30:20):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
Dave, Thanks lot. We'll see you over there this weekend.
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friend now, Chris Miller. How are you doing, mister Miller?

Speaker 5 (34:24):
I'm good man. How about yourself?

Speaker 3 (34:26):
I am doing well. Thanks, thanks for joining us today
because you're always interesting conversation. I want to have you
on my friend. But today we're going to talk about
something that's near and dear to my heart and your
heart as well, and that is animals. There's going to
be an event happening over Dutch Miller's Subaru on October
the eighteenth, from eleven to four, and that of course
is nineteen oh one Patrick Street Plaza. I love the

(34:46):
name Chris hol Oween and you guys have how that's howl.

Speaker 6 (34:51):
You guys to kind of put your.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
Name on this. I know you and know your family,
and I know the superroof folks talking about the Subaru Corporation.
They're really really big on helping out animals.

Speaker 5 (35:03):
Huge and so we partner with the Canall Charleston Humane
Society and we basically did this huge pet adoption event
every single year. So funny story. Last year, I took
my daughter to this event and I promised my wife, Oh,
we're not adopting any animals because we have these two big,
huge Great Danes and they, you know, they're like they're

(35:25):
like children basically in our house. We've got three kids
and two Great Danes. So anyway, my daughter and I
go to the pet adoption event and she has the
uncanny ability to talk me into adopting two kittens. So
we get back home after telling my wife we're not
adopting anything, I promised show up with two cats in
a box.

Speaker 6 (35:45):
Well did it work out? Go ahead's cowing over?

Speaker 5 (35:48):
Okay, you know everybody loves the cats.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
Now okay, well, how did it go over with the
relationship with the Great Danes and the cats?

Speaker 6 (35:55):
Sou's a how is that dynamic?

Speaker 5 (35:57):
Oh? Now that's funny because we have one male Great
Dan and one female Great Dane. The female great dane's
kind of old and she like the cats don't mess
with her at all. They smell and she's like the
real deal. The male is kind of a woosie, and
those cats honed in on that really quickly. And so
we have had to basically referee some fights between two

(36:21):
cats and a Great Dane. That is always very wild
to see. Now it's stopped now because we're a year
down the road, But when it first happened, they were
posturing for pecking order.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
Well, and the thing about it is, well, here's what
I know. I've got cats. I don't have dogs, but
I got cats, and I know cats control the house.
And I'll guarantee you if there's a pecking order, those
cats will probably have already taken over that great dane spot.

Speaker 5 (36:45):
They did, Yeah, those they did really quickly. Now now
the older great Dane, they don't mess with her at all.
It's just funny because she's the.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
Alpha, right yeah, well because she's really the one in charge.
But but you're right about that. But yeah, and great Danes,
from what I know about them, tend to be kind
of big, old pussy cats anyway, no pun intended, So
they're a mental giants are kind of gentle giants. So
that event again, well I'll recap that a little bit
later on, but it's happening on October the eighteenth, eleven
to four at Dutch millerch suber U nineteen oh one

(37:14):
Patrick Strick Plaza in Charleston. And let me just say,
I think it's great that what your family does for
animals and your employees, but also Subaru as a corporation. Again,
I have every Friday, Chris on the show, I have
Angie Gillenwater from the Gonaal charlest and Humane Association on
every Friday with our dop me please Pet of the Week.
And every week she's throwing out the name Subaru. She's saying, so,

(37:36):
you know, thank you so much to Subaru for this,
you know, uh clear the shelter event or whatever it
is that they're calling it.

Speaker 6 (37:42):
I mean, suber is really invested in this.

Speaker 5 (37:45):
Yes they are, and they're the real deal man. Of
all the manufacturers that we do business with, Suberu literally
practices what they preach and they really believe in giving
back to the community. And everybody loves pets and wants
to help out as best as possible. So you know,
why is it being this big, huge win win. Last
year we adopted seventy two animals, which was a record

(38:05):
for us at the super restore in Charleston.

Speaker 20 (38:08):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (38:09):
And so there were literally seventy two animals that were
rescued and given to Great Homes last year and we
got to beat that record. So everybody out there listening
right now, we need your help. We're gonna have all
kinds of awesome animals. Cats, dogs, puppies, kittens, you name it.
I don't think there's any cockatails or birds in this
adoption event this year, but.

Speaker 6 (38:31):
You never know had you had them in the past.
The cocka tilS we had, No, we have not.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
Well, I'll tell you because what I've learned and talking
to Angie every Friday, is they always got something that's
off the beaten path up there a little bit. I
mean they've had, you know, a couple of snakes and
they've had a couple of pigs, and you know, it's
like it's.

Speaker 6 (38:49):
Like ei eio up there.

Speaker 5 (38:51):
Man. It's kind of like, you know, life in our
household every single day. Oh gosh, exactly. Also, Dave and Davis,
who actually used to work with us at the super
dealership and now is in Nashville performing and making a living.
She's an up and coming artist. She's coming back up
to give a concert. So the entire time from eleven

(39:13):
to four on Saturday eighteenth, We're also going to have
a performance from Emmy Davis and it's just going to
be a blast of the time.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
All right, sounds good and we'll remind the folks about
it twenty before we get there. That event again is
happening on October the eighteenth, eleven to four. Dutch Miller,
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All right, I would be remiss, mister Miller if I didn't.
If I had you on the show, and I didn't
pick that brain of yours to find out what's on
that brain of yours. What's on your mind these days?
Politic cool, news wise, what's what's got your mind?

Speaker 6 (40:03):
Work in these days?

Speaker 5 (40:04):
My friend, I've been rolled up in work and having
an absolute blast. We're in the middle of one of
the largest acquisitions we've ever done, which is really really exciting,
and hopefully we'll have a big, huge formal announcement and
a transition that will happen sometime the end of November
beginning of December. And that soaked up a bunch of

(40:24):
my time. And when I've got something like that going on,
I'm early laser focused. I kind of don't listen to
a lot of the noise out there. But I will
tell you that West Virginia is in an interesting place
because where we were two years ago versus where we
are now is basically the same thing. And West Virginia

(40:44):
has a major financial catastrophe coming. We have to add
two hundred thousand people to our state over the next
eight to ten years. Or because of the way that
the Affordable Care Act put pressure in rural states from
Medicare and Medicaid expansion, and our aging population and a
declining population. More and more of our state's budget is

(41:04):
going to be soaked up by the DHHR and required
for reinbursement for medicare to the point where we don't
have enough money to operate our general revenue budget. And
that's going to affect the bond ratings and put us
in a tail spin, and it's going to be really,
really ugly. And so the thing that I would encourage

(41:25):
all of the legislators out there listening and as well
as anybody in the executive branch, we need to have
a wholehearted focus on economic growth and development, focusing on
adding population to our state, because if we do not
do that, it is going to be a bad, bad day.
And what happens is is that it's the rural counties,
in the rural areas that get hit with the funding

(41:46):
reductions first. And we all know already that they're struggling.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
To begin with, right, I mean, you think about areas Chris,
like a McDowell County or a Boone count I'm just
using them as an example, and they're several in the
northern part of the state as well. More rural areas
that are really starting to suffer. And we're seeing tremendous
growth where I live in Putnam County right now, the
Eastern Panhandle Sea.

Speaker 6 (42:07):
But we got to figure.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
Out a way to be able to distribute this because
these counties can't carry the load for everybody.

Speaker 6 (42:16):
And I don't know how you go about that. What
would your plan be? I mean, you know you're smart, guy,
So what's your plan.

Speaker 5 (42:25):
Whenever I'm looking at something, I swat it right. Strengths
weakens his opportunity threats. We have an incredible amount of strengths.
We have the ability to produce massive amounts of energy.
We have more water than any other state in the country.
We got more miles of river than anybody else, and
we own the Ohio River to the high water mark
of Ohio. And if you think about where we are

(42:47):
right now, everything is going to be about artificial intelligence.
And we are not a part of the coating. We
are not a part of the stock ownership. We are
not a part of the creation of the entity that
is going to transcend and create the largest wealth separation
that we have ever seen. But what we have is
what they need because it takes massive amounts of water

(43:09):
to manufacture the Cubit and the other artificial intelligence computation ships.
It takes massive amounts of water to cool the servers
required to handle all this computation power, and it takes
massive amounts of power to generate the computation needed for
all of the artificial intelligence. And so what I believe

(43:30):
West Virginia's opportunity is is two things. One, we should
leverage all of our resources to dramatically reduce the cost
of power, and I'm talking about seventy to eighty percent reduction,
and you use that as the foundation of all of
our economic growth and development, because power is going to
be looked at as a fixed cost in the future,

(43:51):
and businesses are going to need it and it is
going to continue to raise in cost. And so our
one differentiator in the emerging twenty first century economy to
drive our population over our economy can be leverage all
of our resources to be the cheapest state in the
country when it comes to power, and they will come
to us. Also. You think about Jim and Susie Adkins,

(44:13):
and they're both on Social Security and they're seventy years old.
You cut their power bill by seventy percent, You've done
something incredibly impactful for them as well. And that's what
I consider to be good government right there. Also, they've
just to add insult injury. If we don't do this,
it gets really bad. And the opportunities there, and we

(44:36):
can turn West Virginia into the battery of the East
Coast and dramatically export our power, dramatically increase our power
production and become the battery for the East Coast and
take our place in the emerging twenty first century economy.
That's the play. That's what we have to do. All
the other stuff out there that we're hearing talking Lise

(44:56):
is just nothing more than words and dialogue. It is
not a plan, and it is not executable. This is executable.
That's why we need more business people in Holts in
government right now?

Speaker 3 (45:06):
All right, So we I want to get about a
minute left here. We need more business people involved in government.
You're a business person, yes, sir, just saying.

Speaker 5 (45:15):
I'm not going anywhere. The next opportunity that presents itself,
I'm in. I'm gonna do everything I can to help
the say to West Virginia.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
All right, So you're not saying that your career is
done because you ran for governor you're I'm not asking
you for a commitment to anything, but you're gonna be
around a while.

Speaker 6 (45:28):
That's what you're saying.

Speaker 5 (45:29):
I'm going to be around a while, Yes, sir, all right,
Chris Miller.

Speaker 6 (45:32):
It's always a pleasure. I appreciate you being here. We'll
talk soon, buddy, Thanks.

Speaker 5 (45:34):
A lot, day man, thanks for having us.

Speaker 6 (45:37):
All right again.

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The Major League Baseball playoffs continue today on fourteen ninety
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Speaker 3 (48:03):
They had about five minutes away from tam but Dave
Island Show and five Videline brownshe apart by the all
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Couple texts here text says, so ice is repelling from
helicopters onto apartment buildings in the middle of the night,
then break into the apartments to remove people from their homes,
separating children from parents, throwing them all into U haul
box trucks taking them to detention centers to see if

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they're citizens or not. Wtf is wrong with the GOP?

Speaker 6 (48:27):
Says text right, I've not seen video to back that up.
Not saying it didn't happen. I just have not seen
the video. It doesn't mean it happened. It didn't happen.

Speaker 3 (48:34):
Chicago Coop tells me Tuxa, Texas. Trump is saying he's
going to pay. He's not going to pay. I'm sorry
furloughed federal employees their backpay. Typical Trump not to pay employees.
That's a common thing throughout its history. A real man
of the working people right there, says.

Speaker 6 (48:49):
Texture Texas Dave.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
I still think repurposing unused portable classrooms to help with
the shelter overflows all of the state would make a
huge impact.

Speaker 6 (48:58):
We have.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
We have such a kind of generous community of business owners, contractors,
and citizens who I believe, if explained the goal and
has to help, would not hesitate to volunteer time supplies
some funds to repurpose the insides of those buildings to
make them fit for animals. So many have to be
turned away here, and sadly we still have shelters in
the state that euthanized to quote make room this could end.

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Please consider that, says it's ekster.

Speaker 6 (49:22):
Tex says, two.

Speaker 3 (49:23):
Hundred thousand more West Virginian's day. If you're gonna have
to help us repopulate the state, get cracking.

Speaker 6 (49:28):
No, no, that's a hard no. Uh, let me see.

Speaker 3 (49:34):
Tex says, we will never grow until we get away
from bowing down to coal barons and start getting the
jobs like Toyota to locate here. Kentucky doesn't have this problem,
just West Virginia. Well, there's a lot of coal and
quote unquote cole barons in Kentucky as well. It's nine
fifty seven and I mentioned this earlier. State Cenator Mike

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Stewart and more Capito are getting new jobs. As was expected,
Stuart confirmed yesterday to be the newest the new General
Council for the US Department of Health and Human Services.
He'll be leaving the state Senate where he serves out
of District seven. New state senator, of course, will be appointed. Also,
more Capito will be the new US Attorney for the
Southern District and Matt Harvey the new US Attorney for

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the Northern District. And we'll be efforting to get to
Capitol and Stewart on the air locally and all three
of course for midday talk Line or both. To check
out the story at wv metronews dot com. Coming up
on this show tomorrow, homecoming for the Marshall Thundering Herd.
We're going to get into that story and talk about
some of the things going on there with the alumni
folks at Canaw Valley Alumni folks here in Charleston just

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got that chapter up and running.

Speaker 6 (50:38):
We'll get into that.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
Plus, the Vice Mayor of Saint Albans, Jared Page, is
going to be on the show tomorrow, and the folks,
some of the folks from the Charlestonay Alliance are going
to stop by as well. That's all coming up on
tomorrow's show. Tex says, Dave. Did you see knock of
Joseph Gibbels aka Stephen Miller glitch out on CNN when

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he said Trump Trump had power plenary power means absolute authority.
Seems like he said the quiet part out loud. We
all know Trump and maga's end end goals absolute authority,
says a Texter text says, we're getting to the point
where the danger is the criminals attempting to destroy the
country through MAGA and Project twenty five are starting to

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realize they're going to get routed at elections. Can we
agree that the moment the idea of messing with elections
at all is too far that we almost rise up
and stop the hostile takeover by foreign bought businessmen and
amoral perverts running the country. Text says deep state swine
James Comy will be indicted. Hold on, and they sent

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me another text that it erased the first text deep
state Swine James Comy will be indicted in a few moments.

Speaker 6 (51:51):
Just wanted to.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
Put the great news out there, says a Texter. All Right,
lots of stuff we covered on the show today, and
again I do want to say, going back to first
couple of segments that we had with the festival going
on and with October West, the Saturday over on the
Western Festival actually kicks off this evening, and we have
the October West event happening on Saturday. All of our

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stations we go there live. I am looking forward to
it and hope that you will get out there and
enjoy and enjoy these things. If you can't find something
to do. Don't please, don't give me the there's nothing
to do. There's plenty to do, not only in Charleston
but all over the Kanal Valley.

Speaker 6 (52:28):
But you gotta get out there and you gotta do it.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
I will be getting out there actually, back in this chair,
coming up at noon today with thirteen News It's Night
Live anchor Manda Baron, as we will do Metro News
Midday powered by Selangledall back on this show tomorrow, my
producer Dale Cooper.

Speaker 6 (52:43):
Thank you so much, see you tomorrow, see you later
and then.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
Tomorrow then have fun and love somebody.

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