06/22/2026 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Sean Hill, Rusty Webb, Danny Jones

The views and opinions expressed on this program do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of 580 WCHS, its employees, or WVRC media. From the studios of WVRC Media. The country, the United States of America, the state, West Virginia, the city, Charleston. This is the Dave Allen Show on 580 Live. And your host. What we've got here is failure to communicate. He's kind of a big deal. I have come here to chew bubble gun and kick out. And I'm all out of bucket. Dave Allen. And a good Monday morning to everybody. Welcome to the show. Senior producer Ryan Nicholson is in charge of things this morning. Guarantee Bank hotline 304-34-345-58. Tony Vitale, Tax 304-935508. We're in the Jera Construction Studios right on time, right on budget. Visit jared dash construction.com. Phone calls to the show a service of Guarantee Bank, 1320, Canal, Boulevard, East and Charleston, Guarantee Bank, Your Community, Your Story, Texting Services, provided by West Virginia's finance men store, Tony the Taylor. Virginia Street in Charleston. We are awaiting an appearance from Metro News meteorologist Brian Hughes. Brian is working in the Metro News Weather Center as we speak, so we plan to have him at the top of the show. He'll probably come running down here just in a moment, but I will tell you that we are expecting possibly some severe weather in certain areas by the time you head home from work today. The entire area, the entire WCHS listing area, is under a flashed flood watch. I can tell you that for sure. And we had some rain that rolled through the early this morning. Actually, my cat decided, one of my cats decided this morning I needed to be awake. And so I was awake with Whalen this morning. And I heard the thunder, but then I got up. I was like, I don't think the ground is wet. But it is raining a little bit now, I think in Charleston. So if we can break Brian away from the computer, we'll bring him in. And a reminder that... You can follow Metro News Meteorologist Brian Hughes by downloading the Metro News television app or by following online as well, Brian and his team of meteorologists. And so we'll try to bring him here in just a little bit. The gentleman you heard there laughing at me in the background was Sean Hill from KRT. How are you doing? My friend. Welcome to the show. Hey, I'm doing fantastic. Thanks for having me, Dave. So do you have a pet? Are you a pet guy? I do. And my cat woke up at 1 a.m. with a hairball. So that was different than yours. But same effect. Awake. Yeah. One of our cats has decided now that he likes to sleep on my side of the bed and, you know, that he needed to... let me know of his presence at about 3.30 this morning. And so, yeah, that's how that's how that went. Sean, of course, is the executive director of KRT. How are things been with you? Hey, things have been actually going really well. And last time we spoke, I was in here, you know, telling people how important the Canal County Public Safety Levy was. And I'm thrilled to come back and let you know that there was overwhelming approval of that safety levy. And I want to thank the first, the Canal County Commission, for putting that on the ballot. And they do that every five years. And we can't.

say enough about how appreciative we are. And all of our partners who helped make that happen, and most especially to the public who came out and said, hey, emergency services, whether that's fire, ambulance, buses, police, everything is so important to the citizens in Kenaw County. And that really allows us to aim towards the future and budgets, et cetera, with some confidence of what our funding is going to look like. What did, I mean, I don't know if you know this on the top of your head, but how much did it pass by? What was the percentage? Sure. I mean, it was overwhelming. Hopefully it was. Yes, it was overwhelming. So a safety levy needs 60% approval, and we got 75% this time. So really nice. And again, we don't take it for granted every single time. We go out there and push like it's going to fail. But thankfully, it's performed extremely well over the last several iterations. All right. We are, Brian is going to, can we pause you just one second? We can. Because I didn't want to get Brian here. I can do the weather, either way. All right. Good to see you, always. All right, all right, all right, weather, guys. Yeah, sorry, I got pulled into a meeting. You know how that works. Yeah, I fully understand. Yeah, fascinating. Was it today? So was it biscuit or sauce? Was it bacon or sausage? Oh, no, sausage. Okay, okay. Always. But I do love the bacon, though. Candy bacon, especially. All right. Tell us about the weather, then I'll get back to Sean. We're looking at... You too, wait a minute. Look at the... You guys match. Well, I mean... I mean, we are. Robeck, yeah. Look at us, Ryan. We are. Yeah, it's almost matched. A little bit of color. Very... I may actually get a picture that posted on Zoca. He has dinosaurs, and I have, well... Cocktails. Okay. Well, of course you do. All right. What's the weather? Listen, we were looking at Flash Flood Watch. It really kicks off this afternoon, about 1, 2 o'clock afternoon when the Flash Flood Watch goes into effect. We are going to see very heavy rainfall with these showers and storms that develop today. And a lot of that's going to be... from this tropical air mess that we have that's how the Gulf, it's really the accommodation of Gulf and Atlantic moisture. When you get those two sort of teeming up, it becomes messy. Now, we're not looking at significant severe weather event, but we do have gusty winds, a primary threat outside of the flash flooding as we go on this afternoon. Temperatures, low 80s, not bad at all for temperature-wise, and then we cool down over the next couple of days, especially in the mornings. We'll have some fog over the next couple of mornings, but for today. We are looking at heavy rainfall. An inch is probably an easy target of what we're going to see. There will be spots that have higher numbers than that, especially if you get one storm that runs over the same area a couple of times. All right. And so the entire area, our entire listing area is under a flashlight. Entire listing areas under a flashflow watch. Until. And that goes until tonight. I think it was 11 tonight. I think is what I think is what I heard of is. Yeah, because most of the showers will be wrapping up as we're getting about to about 7, 8 o'clock tonight. But the stuff that goes to the overnight. into the late night hours, we'll just aggravate some things. It's not going to be anything that's going to cause any more significant flooding. So the big deal here, we're not looking like a tornado event or anything like a lot of watches or warnings or anything like that. It is going to be heavy rain. Right. And that's really, it's soaking rains. And right now we're already, you know, we're not waterlogged, but the rain that we did have, as we went into last week, did not, did not help our situation for today.

Later on this week, though, we're going to drive Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and then Thursday night, some more rain moves in. And we've got off and on rain chances all the way through the weekend. All right. What time we're looking at this afternoon when these storms should fire up approximately? I mean, I know we can't tell it. We can't say exactly. Right. We've got stuff that's right now that's just across parts of eastern Kentucky that's starting to move in. So over the next, about two hours, that's when we're going to start to see their first rounds of rain that will start to pick up. And a lot of this, by the way, a lot of this has embedded lightning. The one thing that we had, that we've had over the last number of times, matter of fact, by the way, that Saturday rain, hello, that was a surprise. But the one thing. Where did it rain Saturday? Yeah, it rained late Saturday night. It's like 11 o'clock all of a sudden. Yeah, I was like, oh, I was already asleep. Yeah, yeah. I was out, I don't know how, but I was out, and I was like, whoa, where did that rain? I mean, honestly goodness. Okay. Matter of fact, I texted Jackson, we and I are still very good friends. I text him and I, so about that rain, it goes, yeah. It's just kind of happened. Yeah. It was one of those things that, yes, sometimes even we get surprised. All right, all right, but people need to kind of, just be, as they say, be weather alert, just kind of keep an eye. Very much so today. So, in other words, no bus is driving through in low water. Exactly. Or if you're planning on walking, you might as well catch the bus. Right. Exactly. All right, Brian. That's the way to do it. Appreciate it, man. Thanks a lot. Thank you. A nice shirt. I got a picture of it. We're both in khaki pants. I didn't get the, I guess I didn't get the memo, but the uniform change. All right. Brian, thanks a lot. All right. So let's get back to Sean Hill, KRC. I did want to talk about. the maintenance facility. We did this story about it. You guys got a new maintenance, and it's for the first time in how long? Gosh, so we have an 85-year-old maintenance facility over there on the west side of Charleston that's been in, you know, it was developed for street cars, et cetera. You know, so it's about that should tell you something. Yeah, so it gives you a little idea. And, you know, for years we've been attempting to get some federal funding to help. build a new maintenance facility that's kind of right size. So instead of an 80,000 foot streetcar facility, we're talking about a 25 to 30,000 foot state-of-the-art facility. And I can't say enough about my appreciation for our federal partners. So last September, we received a $21 million grant to help do that. We're now in the design phase and working through that because, you know, you can have the best system on paper, but if you don't have buses running or if your buses are down for a prolonged period because of your infrastructure, you know. it's terrible for everyone. So it's kind of, it's not as exciting to our passengers, but to our entire system into keeping things modernized and rolling forward. It's essential for us. I see what you did there, rolling forward. I'll see what you did there. Easy for puns. You got some public hearings coming up because there's some, we've already seen changes with KRT, and there could be more coming. Exactly. And so we continue to try to find creative ways to, um, continue to deliver the service that our passengers have come to depend upon, but also take into account the budget realities that everyone, you know, across the board are facing. So we are getting ready to schedule some public hearings where we're going to go out and listen to our passengers. We're going to throw out some ideas for our board. You know, our board does a great job of listening to the feedback from the passengers and then coming to a conclusion of, okay, these are the realities. We've got to save some money somehow. How do we do that in a way that minimizes the impact to our passengers the most?

One of the first things we're going to do, though, is on July 20th, we're transitioning four of our current fixed routes over to the KRT Plus. That's that on-demand ride-share-esque service where you download an app or you call into our office and we schedule a ride. So come July 20th, Route 10, 11, 16, and 18 are going to transition to that KRT Plus on-demand service. allows us to send out a smaller vehicle on demand. So we come out on your schedule. You're not living on ours. So that's a plus. It's still the same $1.50. But instead of driving our buses around in circles all day for sometimes nine people on Route 11 or, you know, 11 on Route 18, we'll send the smaller vans out there whenever they're actually needed. That's going to save us a couple hundred thousand dollars a year. So we're coming up with creative ways to still serve individuals but save money. And then we're going to go out to have some deeper discussions and some tougher talks about what changes we need to make to make sure we can pay the bills. And when you say tougher decisions and talk, what are we talking about? Yeah. So what we're really talking about is looking at the performance of certain routes and it's looking about how do we perform the core mission. which is obviously connecting people to opportunities. So we've got to get people to work. You know, I can't overemphasize how important KRT is to our economy and workforce development, get people to medical appointments, get them to grocery stores. How do we do that while realizing we have almost a $2 million deficit right now? So you start looking at, we've, over the last couple of years, we've done the easy things, which is the administrative changes, some of the processes, et cetera. Now it's the tough things, looking at different routes, what makes sense for us to continue to run. You can only minimize frequency so often before you have routes that don't really sustain actual transit. They look like they do, but they're just for appearances, right? So you're looking at a, I think you said almost $2 million. So it's like almost a $2 million deficit. Exactly. And how does that happen? I mean, just. Yeah. I mean, just. Sure. So it's a great question. So it happens. It doesn't happen overnight, but it happens, you know, COVID. had a big impact on public transit in a weird way that I don't think people understand. You know, we had almost two million passengers a year in pre-COVID times, and now we've dropped down to about one million. You know, those people didn't all get remote jobs. They didn't all decide, hey, we're just not going to ride the bus. But the transit community, they're very resourceful. And once they find an alternative way to get to. wherever they're going, they're going to depend on themselves instead of, you know, public transit when during COVID, that was tough. So you lose a million passengers right there, a million passengers times a dollar 50. You're in a $1.5 million hole, essentially. But everything gets more expensive. We've seen that across the board with insurance prices, labor. Now we used to order a bus and in. You know, you could get it in six to eight months. Now it's an 18-month turnaround, and those buses are now almost $600,000 a piece. People don't realize, I think, how much buses in general, whether it's yours or a school bus or what, I mean, six, the average bus is $600,000. Yeah. And so it's incredible when you start talking about we have 49 buses and, you know, how do you make that work? So it's the tough things. It's going out there to the public and presenting to them different scenarios of, okay, well, if we're going to make this work, you can only pay your...

pay your bills with your savings account for so long before you run out. And we've done projections. And the last thing we want to do is hit that point. So we're taking the proactive approach saying, hey, we're a few years in advance of this being a critical emergency. Let's make some deliberative choices so we don't have to make an emergency decision, you know, where we have no other options. Talk about Sean Hill of KRT. Got a text question here for you. Unlike Uber, will these buses only have one pickup or will they go from... One, two, I have to stop here and get this person having two different fares at one time. Yeah, so they are, they maximize, there's an algorithm that that maximizes. our ability to pick up individuals so that you're not guaranteed to ride by yourself. If we can pick up someone else in the area, that's kind of the point, is how can we maximize the ability for these vans and our drivers to pick up as many people as possible. We have certain rules of when you get picked up, you have a time frame of when you have to be dropped off. So if picking up... Dave and then picking up Brian makes it so that you don't get to your appointment in time, then the system's not going to allow me to pick up Brian. Right. Tell him he's punished for not being there on time. So you'll get a ride, but the other person won't. So it is ride share, and again, that's to maximize the cost efficiency of that. But it's not going to be like an Uber where you can pay a little more and ride by yourself. All right. Now, you're going to let us know about these public hearings, right? Yes. When is the first one? We don't have it scheduled yet. So the first thing we're doing is transitioning those four routes, and we want to make sure that we're doing. And hit those four routes again. Yes, those four routes are route 10, 11, 16, and 18. So that's City Park, Wirtz Avenue, South Park, and Fort Hill. That's going to happen on July 20th. We want to make sure we get that out of the way. We're going to do a public information campaign. And thank you for having us here. This is the first stop of that campaign. Making sure we get to. the info out on the buses down at the city center, online, et cetera, so that people can understand and learn that system as they move over to KRT Plus. And then in the coming months, we're going to get the information out and hold a series of public hearings. All right. And remind me to remind you, I want to have you back on, you know, before those changes happen. We have one final text in and we let you go. How far out will these buses go, say Sissonville, Clendenin, Elfew? Yeah, so the KRT Plus program, there are six zones, and so it's got, and they are. centered around KRT's headquarters. So we've got East Charleston, West Charleston. We've got Knaw City, South Hills, South Ridge, and South Charleston. So the system works when you're in an area close to where your vehicles are. I'm not going to pretend that it works as well. The further you spread out, that would require us to have way more employees and way more vehicles to accommodate if someone in Sissonville or in Montgomery says, hey, I need picked up and taken to an appointment.

The system doesn't work really well when we tell you, hey, it's going to be 45 minutes or an hour before we come get you. So it is those six zones that currently exist. I'm not anticipating us expanding those zones much more right now. But the data shows we're able to, with our current staff, perform our service in those six areas. So we know we can accommodate it. We've done an eight-month trial program to make sure it'll work. And now it's just actually turning it on and saying, hey, you know, for the individuals who've been riding fixed route. Now you can use this KRT Plus service. All right. We'll have you back on as we get a little closer to that. Yes, sir. Sean, thanks a lot. Thanks for being here. Sean Hill, KR&T. The Dave Island Show on 580 line brought to you in part by Pinnacle Consultants, Helping to identify environmental concerns, asbestos, lead, mold, and indoor quality issues and buildings all across the state providing inspections, testing, and accredited lab services. You can trust. Check out PinnacleCorp.net, helping you understand your environment because what you don't know can hurt you. Danny Jay Jones coming up. Plus next, Rusty Webb is going to tell me, Sean, why I should care about the World Cup. You should care. He's going to explain it why I should care. Let's come up after this. And the voice of Charleston, WCHS. Brought to you by the Eric J.T.R. Family Businesses. Eric J.T.R. Family businesses have been creating jobs in West Virginia since 1997. Let me tell you one of the reasons I think we became the largest injury firm in the world, and it's not even close. I'm John Morgan of Morgan and Morgan. My wife and I had a plan early on. In our firm, our lawyers only work on certain types of cases. Our products liability and dangerous drug lawyers only work on those cases. Same for car crashes, workers' compensation, medical malpractice, and insurance disputes. Our thinking is for these lawyers to focus on one area of the law and live it and breathe it. Power comes from knowledge. Many lawyers do everything. Jack of all trades. Not us. And we don't charge an hourly rate. You only pay us if we win. If you want to hire us, it's easy. Dial pound law on your cell phone, pound 529, or visit for the people.com on your phone or computer from the comfort of your own home. Let us get to work for you, Morgan and Morgan, for the people. Office 222 Capitol Street, Charleston. Cases will be handled by West Virginia licensed attorneys. The attorney in this ad is not licensed in West Virginia. Morgan and Morgan for the people.com. They say the kitchen is the heart of the home, so this spring, give yours a heartbeat you'll actually love. We're so much more than floors. From stunning custom cabinetry to elegant granite and quartz countertops, our local design experts are ready to help you plan the ultimate kitchen transformation. Come visit the area's leading design center to bring your vision to life. Visit our showroom at 201 New Golf Mountain Road in cross lanes. Nitro carpet and design center. Beautiful kitchen. Made Easy. Hi, I'm Dylan Jumper, a project consultant at Civil and Environmental Consultants. I'm someone who craves challenges and meaningful connections. At CEC, I found both solving complex problems and delivering quality solutions is what drives me. It's not just about completing tasks, it's about building trust and making a lasting impact. In the Martinsburg office, we anticipate, communicate, and act swiftly to keep projects on track. At CEC, we engineer progress in the great state of West Virginia. Find out what CEC can do for you. Visit CECINC.com.

That's the sound of the Amos Steel Band, the official house band, the Dave Allen Show, 927. Dave Island Show on 5.80 line brought you part by your hometown baseball team to Charleston. Dirty Birds. Birds are off tonight back at Go-Mart Ballpark tomorrow night to start a series against York. Tomorrow night is baseball for us night, sponsored by 10-10 CWV, Corderoy Brown. going to throw out the first pitch. Festival, set to announce a new art project there tomorrow night. Poster's gifts for the first 500 kids through the gate. And look for those collectible baseball cards as well. Rod Blackstone, the Dirty Bird is going to join us on the show tomorrow to talk about it. Check out Dirty Birds Baseball.com. I did have one question that came through for Sean, and he had to leave, but I asked him the question. And the question was, could you reserve a bus a day ahead of time if you live out of town then? You can reserve a bus or a ride up to 14 days in advance, according to... to Sean of K. Aren't you? Let's bring in my good man, Rusty Webb. How you doing, man? I'm fantastic. Do you want to go ahead and tell your fishing story now because you walked in the door? We need to make sure you show that to Chris Lawrence, by the way. You said, look at this. Look at you. Hand me your phone and you got a big in, huh? So I fish a section of Lower Gawley, and I went last night. It was my father's day gift to me, right? It was great. So. I'm not catching. I'm throwing huge bait, and I'm not catching a lot. But right when I get in front of Larry Gross's cabin, I cooked a 17 inch. And I said it to him immediately, and he goes, that's reserved for my friends. He texted me back, so those are reserved for my friends. What kind of fish was it? Smallmouthed, small mouth fast. Yeah, that's about all I fish for really. Good looking fish. I mean, I'm not a big fisherman, but it's a good. It's a big fish. Yeah, it's quality. Yeah, the 20 is what you're going for. You're going for every time you get in the boat. You're looking for the 20. Okay. All right. All right. So the reason you're here, you text me last week, and you said, I want to talk about World Cup. Your assignment. Rusty, is to make me care about the World Cup. Because I don't. First of all. We, the world is, they call it a sleepover. You probably haven't kept up with that, but they calling it the greatest sleepover ever. So all these international people coming to the United States and they are overwhelmed with what we have here. You know, what we take, what you, not you and I take for granted, but most people take for granted. And they're just blown away. Any criticism that has been going on about this country has been drowned out by...

All of these posts on social media. I've seen several. The Europeans especially, the British especially, the Buckees, the Vast Pro Shops. Ranch dressing. Rance dressing. I mean, free refills. I mean, it's things you just don't get over there or anywhere, right? When I say over there, it could be anywhere. But it's just a great, and it's happening at our most a hat I have on here. of my murk I had on. Our 250th anniversary and so many naysayers were like, this is going to be a flop. They're going to hate us. They love us. That's a perspective I hadn't thought about. They absolutely love us. I was reading an article yesterday about this and it was an article online and it contained in it various video clips from, you know, YouTube, TikTok and whatever. And they were saying, you know, like these British people or like anywhere. Right. I totally misjudged you. And I guess they had this image that America was like – And it – Because they – it can be from time to time. But they're saying we thought that as soon as we got off the plane, we were going to be accosted by people with guns. And we thought all this – And they talked about how nice people are. And I'm not talking about people in West Virginia. I'm talking about people where they're playing in Dallas and wherever they – Right.

One guy, I saw one guy's like, He's like, what kind of boat are he goes? It's a bass bow. He doesn't want to take a ride. He's like he's riding a bass, but like things that you just, they just, it's a cultural. And I think the variety just, and we don't do it. We don't take advantage either. If you go to one or two of our national parks, it will blow you away. Especially being somebody from another country. I'll just, you know, side note, when I went to Yosemite, Rob and I, It was like a religious experience, man. I'm telling you, it is so daggone beautiful. Just huge. But here's the best part. And you don't even know, I mean, I guess you don't even know about it. The unofficial song of the World Cup is Country Roads. Country Roads. I do know that. I actually heard a story that Daniel and Chris did on the morning news when I was driving in this morning about that. Amazing. So the Scott started doing it in Boston. And then at the Australia, U.S., where was it in Portland, Oregon, I guess, the entire crowd sang it after the game. I mean, come on. It's a song that came out in 1971, by the way. And here's the thing. We've got to jump on these opportunities, Dave. You know, we've got to start. Listen, no criticism against tourism or Chelsea, right? She does a great job. She does. And she probably doesn't have that flexibility, but, man, we should be buying spot ads wherever we can and say, visit the state that inspired the song. You know, get those people back over here. Get them to West Virginia. Chris told me about, or actually he said this on the air this morning, Chris Lawrence was in Detroit for a Tigers and White Sox game over the weekend. The crowd started breaking out into Country Road. Yeah. Listen, Robin gets mad at me, but every time I go, when I go away to a foreign country or Hawaii, for that matter. I'll say where you're from and I'll say West Virginia and they'll kind of give me this perplex look and I'll go, country roads and I go, oh, they go, oh yeah, the song, country roads. And then I'll ask them to sing it and videotape it. So it's my thing, man. At the, God, they were singing it in Paris at the... One of the big, gosh, I can't think of this. This is Paris, France, not Paris, Tennessee, by the way. Yeah, they were singing it at Montclair, I think, one day I heard them up there. I can tell you, and I've told this story on the air before, when Landau was in China. Yeah.

And the taxi driver picked him up. He said, and I'm not going to, there's no way you can do the accent without making you sound, you know, I'm not going to do the accent. But the driver asked him, he said, where are you from? And he said, West Virginia. And the driver in China started singing country roads. That was about 10 years ago when he was in China. I'll have taxi. My Uber drivers, I'll do the same thing. When they asked me where I'm from, one will break out. in the country roads and i'll video and i always you'll see it on my on my facebook page i'll post it every time i can all right text says in regards to all these videos of the soccer fans love it america news flash to all you little democratic socialist that's all capitalism yeah yeah i wasn't going to say anything about the i was going to keep it all positive but it has literally been drowned out like like even the even the you know the the the big media is is on board for this i mean which is weird they're usually finds somebody to complain about something right right but uh wow it's just amazing and the in the the norway does their viking thing man and here's the cool here's what here's what you're seeing so we don't we don't cheer they they're cheering is different. I mean, what they do is they go into a stadium and it's nonstop. I mean, it's like there's a soccer match happen to be going on while they're cheering. And it's more of a song thing than we do. We do more chant. You know, let's go mountaineers. We are Marshall. And the flag wave, and it goes on and on and on. And that never stops. So what happens is they came over here. And we don't have that. All we have is USA, right? So what we're doing is in the middle of the World Cup, we're trying to adapt USA to some kind of European style. Like they're teaching us, you know, how we can kind of riven up. And I think, listen, I think it's going to help soccer worldwide. I think it's going to help soccer certainly in the United States, which frankly doesn't need a lot of help. It's moving up. Huge popularity. But it's just... Everything is positive about this thing. And nobody can take that away. It's just really good. You got me wanting to break it. God bless the USA now. Well, this is not true, but I saw this one British guy say it. It's not true. Actually, X corrected me when I posted it. So this is not true. But he says, my understanding is the Brits are playing the U.S. in Philadelphia on July 4. Like, how fair is that? You know what I mean? It wasn't true, but... It made a good story. But it made a really good story. All right. So what's the status of the U.S. right now? Because, again, you convince me I need to be watching this. So what's the status of the U.S.? Well, I know we'd be in Australia. I haven't...

You know, and I don't think we've played since then, but I haven't kept up. Okay. I can't be honest. You've been more concerned with the sociological aspect. Yeah, yeah. Because you know me. I'm positive. I promote West Virginia. And when I finally see my country come together. Because of a bunch of Europeans are loving us or a bunch of world are loving us. And now we're uniting. That's, that's phenomenal. All right. Here's your negative. Texas. Oh, here we go. Now just let me read it. And then I'll get you out of here. Word around the Internet is the White House is doing PR control because England, Australia, Scotland, and New Zealand fans have catchy chance about Trump and the Epstein files. How did we pick up those particular fans or what? They're what? The textuary is saying that England, Australia, Scotland, and New Zealand fans have chants about Trump and the Epstein files. Have chance. Chance. Like they're chanting something about Trump and the Epstein file. I don't know. If they are. If they are, I haven't seen it. But, you know, the algorithm is going to give me positive feedback. You know how that works. So if they are, I mean, I'm not saying. All right, Rusty, you've got me now. I'm going to, I'll follow it. And listen, I have season tickets to Marshall, the best soccer in the state. National champions. And you come down and you can sit with me or have a pair of my tickets. I have season tickets. Well, I would rather sit with you so you can explain to me what I'm watching. Okay. Can you do that? Will you take me out to dinner, too? Well, I'll take you to the little club area. We'll feed you there. Of course. Rusty Webb. Appreciate you being here, man. All right. We'll take a break. Danny Jay Jones coming up on the voice of Charleston, WCHS. Brought to you by the Eric J-Tar Family Businesses. Eric J-Tar family businesses are small businesses with big impact, including generations physical therapy and snap fitness. I'm Doug Leach, founder and CEO of Ascension Recovery Services. We've done a number of projects with Jarrett Construction. Finding people that really care about what they do and care is pretty unique. In Jarrett Construction, they care. They're really, really good people, good people do the right thing, and they're very skilled. They have all the qualities that make up just a perfect construction partner and they just built us a phenomenal building. Right on time, right on budget, call on Jared's Construction. The savings are on all summer long at Walker Chevrolet in Nitra. Listen, if you're planning on dragging that old worn out ride up and down the turnpike one more time, just don't. This is the time to upgrade and make that next trip in comfort and style. This summer, Gene and Ryan have loaded down the lot with inventory, both new and used, and that means they're sure to have the perfect vehicle for you no matter what your summer adventures have in store. And you know you're going to get the best deal possible at Walker because Gene and Ryan built...

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He was the first guy. A guy in West Virginia was the first guy to ever play Country Roads on the radio. The record company wasn't happy about it. Record company is calling and going, hey, because, you know, back in the old days, you know, you've been around a while, they had, they would, an artist would release an album, and they had certain cuts. This is going to be the first single. This is going to be the second single. It's all planned out the way it used to be anyway. And so this guy, he decides to play Country Roads. Obviously, you start playing a song about West Virginia on rock radio, country radio. People are going to go nuts wanting to hear it. It spread like wildfire. And the record company calls him, goes, hey, what are you doing? That's not supposed to be played. And he said, well, look at how many requests I've got for this song. So then they released it as a single. That's a true story. I didn't know that. I wonder what year that was. Well, 71's when the song came out. Well, that's when I first heard it. Yeah, it was in 71. Text had a great interview with Rusty. This country roads thing is nuts, says a texture. All right. So. I wanted to ask you this past weekend. Of course, we had all the cyclists in this past week and everything. Did you get a chance to take in any of the USA Pro Road Championships while you were here? It ran right by your place. That's why I'm asking. How can you take it in? You couldn't move. But, I mean, it's right there by where you live. I see them drive down the street. All right. Well, a lot of people enjoyed it. I mean – Well, I'm glad they did. Do you see the parties up in South Hills that they had? No, and I'm not knocking it. Okay. I'm just saying downtown now, a lot of businesses like the courier diner and like Starbucks on the boulevard, it's heard them. But, you know, that's one thing that happens when you have a big event like that. Right. But there's some businesses that just relished it. I mean, some of the bars and stuff, I know people down like places like Five Street and those places, they loved it. How did they get there? People, when people come out, a lot of these people, when they come out to these things, they park two or three streets over and they plan on staying there. And this town, I mean, I, I didn't take a lot of it in. I'm not knocking it. I'm not either. I'm 100% for it. But I'm just saying that it brings a lot of money in Charleston as well. Okay. It does. Okay. It's easily, easily traceable, you know, from your cell phone. It, um, okay. I mean, I hope so. That's what it's there for. Yep. And it's, they got two more years on it? I think, yes, I think. Two or three. Two or three. Yeah. Okay. All right. All right. So I want to ask you about Trump, about President Trump. Where do we start? Iran, New Air Force One, his expletives on Fox News, his truth social post about Democrats, is feud with Italy. Where do we go?

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The 8th Island Show on 580 Live is brought you apart by Morgan to Morgan America's largest injury law firm. I appreciate the text here. Texas. The U.S. is 2-0 and has a match left in pool play. They have won their group and will move on to the knockout stage round of 16. I appreciate it. Now I'm all. Who do they play next? I did that. I don't know. Textor, who do they play next? The U.S. 2-0 has a match left in pool play. They have won their group and will move on to the knockout stage and round of 16. Let me read you this post, and I referenced this earlier. This was on Truth Social from the president. He says, and he's doing a poll, which do you prefer, dumbocrat or dumb with a Bocrat? In one case, you simply exchange the E for the U, so simple and precise. Many people don't know or assume that dumb ends in a B. In other case, you spell out dumb, D-U-M-B, but it seems to lose some of its identity to Democrats when done this way. Which is better? Thank you for your attention to this very important matter. This was a poll, and he wrote out Democrat, D-U-M-O-C-R-A-T or D-U-M-B-Zero. I'm sorry, R-C-R-A-T. My thought is, as President of the United States, don't you have something better to do? That's what I was thinking. I mean, look, I appreciate humor. I do appreciate humor. That's not funny. But it's not, I mean. And that's real. That's not, that wasn't fake. That's absolutely real. He took time. Did you, did you watch that joke I sent you about the Waffle House? No, I did not. I still haven't. That's funny. Now you want to watch some of it's funny. All right. All right. So as we celebrate, get ready to celebrate America's 250th birthday here. There's, T.J. does a really good commentary today. I have to give the boy credit. He always does good commentaries. But his commentary today was about the reflective pool and how America should be more concerned about other things. But we're all arguing about a body of water with all the problems that we have in America. Do you think sometimes it's somebody, and I know the, I know my opinion, I'll get yours, that sometimes the president just does stupid things. to take attention off of other things? No, I don't think so. I don't think he did the reflective pool. I mean, because he doesn't look good on that. I mean, I don't know who planned. Who's planning all these things? The reflective pool. All the paint's coming off. I mean... I heard about a three-minute clip this morning on Morning in America with the president talking about how this was the greatest thing ever, and he went on to explain the type of paint that was used, and this is the greatest thing ever. And I'm sitting there thinking, what am I listening to? It's coming off. What am I listening to here? Why do you mess with it at all?

Well, I mess with a lot of stuff. Now, the thing he's building at the White House that he didn't talk about, nobody knew about, he just started tearing stuff apart, if it comes out the way it's supposed to, nobody will want to say they were against it. But we don't know. And now he's asking for money for it. It was supposed to be paid for it privately. I mean, I think we need something like that, but you would think there had been some buy-in. from somebody else, you just don't start tearing the White House apart. The Dave Island Show on 580 Live brought to you in parts by Hussons Pizza. This month, get a large 18-inch pepperoni pizza and any whole 10-inch sub-23 bucks. Find your nearest Hustons for dining delivery, pick-up at Hustonspeza.com. Do you ever read Phil Cabler's column? I read it this morning. On Sundays? Yeah. Well, the weekend paper. Yeah. About the possibility that the whole thing at the correspondence dinner was staged. I don't believe that. The thing about these events being staged, and it's been, you know, everything from Butler, Pennsylvania to this, is you'd have to have the buy-in of everybody involved, and somebody eventually is going to crack, somebody eventually is going to. Yeah, no, he's getting beside himself on that one. It wasn't staged. It was, I thought it was a lax in security, quite frankly. But I guess the point was, is that in years past, there had been a lot more security at this event, and that security was lax this time. And why did they suddenly change it when you have a very unpopular president? I know how popular he is in West Virginia, but outside West Virginia, you have a very unpopular president. Why would you not beef it up to the hilt? We'll see how popular he is in the...

elections in November. Yeah. Do you think it's going to be a bloodbath like people think it is? Let's see where gas prices are. They're going down. Gas prices are going down. Yeah. We don't know for how long they're going down, but they're going down. Yeah. Hey, do you remember what you were doing in 1976? I was six years old. Okay. Why? That was the 200th Annabird. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Actually, I do. I do. I was not quite sick because I would have turned sixth in September. My father took me to Ohio to visit some of his family. And I was telling us about this story the other day. I remember I was five years old driving through all these little towns, Springfield and New Carlisle, all these towns around Dayton, Ohio. And seeing as a kid, just look, because my dad left the house at like 6 o'clock in the morning, so we were on the road, just looking at how patriotic everything. Well, now, I'm a kid then, but. Do you know, do you remember in Godfather, too, that where they stayed at the Hotel Washington? Well, that's where I was. And down the street, there was, the Willard wasn't redone yet. It was all closed up. And Pass the Willard was Basin Sidewalk Cafe. And I sat down there, I was with somebody, and I sat down there at 1 o'clock, and I left at 1 in the morning. And I wasn't walking that well. It's a good way to put it. All right. But I have a good time. Tech says, you know, the show has become basically a Trump Bash Fest because I never hear either of you honestly say anything positive. It's hard. That he's done, by the way. The reflecting pool, there was actually an Olympic kayaker that was arrested for damaging the pool over the weekend. Well. I'd like to be able to say something. I supported him on Israel and initially supported him on this Iran thing. But it's turned into quite a mess. And we'll have to see what he comes up with. But Iran's ridiculed him. Yeah. You know. Texas, Florida Guy Day, there will be no election bloodbath. Nobody ever talks about Democrats are less popular than Republicans. I don't believe that's going to be it. And, you know, that's Democrat, he can take responsibility. Trump can take responsibility. I'll leave everybody with this. He can take responsibility for this Democrat socialist movement. Because once he came out against that socialist mayor of the candidate in D.C., that was it. She was going to win. All right. Danny, got to leave it there. T.J. Meadows is coming up with Talk on what you got. 1130 U.S. Attorney for the Northern District, Matt Harvey, on that embezzlement scheme and takedown that happened in Berkeley County involving the sheriff's office. Jason Pissotella, CEO Contractors Association of West Virginia at 11.06 on the Faster Labor Contracts Act. We'll talk about that. Plus, Brad McElheny coming up to start the show.

I'm going to talk about this data center in Tucker Carlson County. Did they file the paperwork? Did they not? Were they required to? Were they not? We get the latest. And Wilson's back from a two-day vacation, right? Indeed. All right. All right. I'll see you later today. I'm Metro News Midday with 13 News. It's a night live anchor man to bear back on this show tomorrow. Until then, have fun. I love somebody. CHS AM 96.5 FM Charleston and 104.5 cross lanes. A WVRC media station. We're proud to live here too.