The Bloomdaddy Experience with Otis & Sam August 2nd, 2024

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
See number one talk show in the Ohio Alley. This
is the bloom Daddy Experience. Your host bloom Daddy. His
goal inform, entertain and tick people off. The bloom Daddy
Experience on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well, good morning, good morning, it is Friday. The bloom
Daddy Experience, Otison Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. We
made it. It was rough. It was rough for me.
I'm just gonna put it out there. It's been a rough,
rough week. Not a lot of sleep have I experienced
this week, and then I got absolutely poored on this morning.

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So Happy Friday, Happy Friday.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
It's a beautiful day.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
You it's stopped raining by the time you came in.
Was it so RIGHTO?

Speaker 3 (00:56):
I mean you were only here like ten or fifteen
minutes before me.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
I know, but it was so spotty, But I just
got drenched.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah, that's why they make umbrellas.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
I know I brought it, but I'm not like my
feet walking through all right. But yeah, it's been a
rough week. Don't want to get into all that. I'll
just say that a lot of a little bit of sleep,
although last night was capped off literally and figuratively by
my little dog two o'clock this morning, thunder lightning. I

(01:29):
woke up to a vibrating furry turban on my head. Basically,
she was absolutely petrified. So I've pretty much been up
since two o'clock this morning. So when I say lack
of sleep, I mean lack of sleep.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
I know. I woke up around you know, because being
as old as I am, like, I can't sleep in
one position. I just got to keep moving because body
parts start falling asleep and hurting in everything else. So
as I rolled over my phone, said, I hear like
an alert on my phone, Like it's almost like a

(02:07):
text message alert, but a lot of my alerts are
the same sound. And I look opened my eyes and
I look and it's like three o'clock in the morning.
I'm thinking, who the hell was texting me at three
o'clock in the morning, And here's this stupid game that
I play on my phone telling me.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
That you've got free lives or something.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
No, it just it said playoffs are underway. And I'm
like job, because I'm thinking to myself, who texts you
at three in the morning, you know, unless maybe something's right. Yeah,
if it's an emergency. I'm hoping they're calling and not.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Texting, right, yeah, yeah, no, So and I was like.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Do I look at the text? Do I look at
Do I look? Do I look? Do I look? Do
I look? Of course you look. Curiosity just get you.
And then and then you're up for twenty minutes to
an hour because you can't go back.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
To sleep, and then you're awake and your brain starts
working f and your phone, yes, and then yourself because
you're like just close. Yep.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, I've been there.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
So frustrating and so painful sometimes, but we did make it.
It is. We made it to this Friday morning. So
with that being said, you know, yesterday we had marketing
director from the High Valley Mall, Candy Noble Gradehouse with
us and talking about their new initiative Small Shop Showdown,
which to me is very reminiscent of Shark Tank. So

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for entrepreneurs, if you want to start a business, if
you want to start a brick and mortar business, the
High Valley Mall, along with the Saint Clairsville Area Chamber
Commerce have teamed up for the Small Shop Showdown, where
you pitch your business idea and then there's all kinds
of prizes that go along with the free rent and
location with inside the mall. So that got me. I

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started thinking about that and what don't we have? Want
to hear from you this morning? This is our Friday
question call us one eight hundred and sixty two four
eleven seventy. Of course this is also on our Facebook page,
and I know everybody out there listening has an opinion.
So we want to hear from you. Call us one
in one hundred and sixty four eleven seventy. And of

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course there is our text line started off with bloom
Daddy three zero three eight to two. Send us your ideas.
Doesn't hurt to talk about it. But what type of
store do we not have that we need, whether inside
the mall, around the mall, somewhere in the area that
we do not have. I threw it at Candy yesterday,

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which is a Myers. While I was, you know, on
the road to uh to Wisconsin for the RNC, stopped
at a Myer's never been before. Loved it, loved the prices,
loved the clothes they had to offer. They had it
was it was huge. It was huge to the point
where they needed benches, so you could stop and take
a break from walking. But what don't we have? Or

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food if it's if it's a food, if it's a
it's a say a Dave and Busters. That's also an
entertainment venue along with with food. You know, what don't
we have that's missing again? Call us one eight hundred
and sixty two for eleven seventy. You can post on
our Facebook which I have it up there also, or

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you can text us three zero three eight two. Started
off with bloom Daddy. Also throughout the show, we've got giveaways,
got one coming up later in this hour. Gonna change
it up this.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
Morning though, Oh what are we giving away?

Speaker 2 (05:28):
We're gonna give away some food. Nice gift certificate to
river City, Okay, so something to fill your belly. So
if you are going to anything coming up at West
BANKO Arena, you can go to River City for dinner beforehand.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
You know. I was, I was doing something for my
other job this week and it was at West BANKO
Arena and they were setting up for the Dino show
that's I think tonight.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Oh yeah, the mckit.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, it looked pretty neat, like really they had like
so that all the boards are down from the hockey
and the football and everything else, and so the floor
of the arena is wide open. And then the people
brought in and so they were just you know, obviously
they're organized, so they know what they're doing. So they
had all their stuff on their carts for the dinos

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and it was kind of neat, and then they move.
I think, yeah, I mean, yeah, some of them are.
And then there's ones you can ride, you know, like
there's little rides and stuff like that. And while I
was there, I ran into Denny McGruder, who is our
new mayor and Wheeling. He's been in office for about
just little over a month. He got a month under
his belt, and I said, hey, we didn't get a

(06:31):
chance to get you on because we had some technical
difficulties when I was in Birmingham, but you want to
come back on and he said absolutely, So I said, well,
how about next week and he said, well, I have
some minor surgery next week, so we're going to let
him get through that, but hopefully the week of the
twelfth we will have Denny on.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
You. I just want to talk to him about you know,
first month.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
First month, maybe ask him some questions why have you noticed,
you know, the little street where we park, So we
park in between the mall center slash Holly Building, whatever
you want to call it, and then the river and
then the river's edge or whatever. It is no longer,
no longer in existence, but they put that stop light there,

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and when you go to get out, it turned and
you sit there forever and it turns green and before
you can hit the gas it's yellow.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah, I will. You know what that got me yesterday?
I sat there and I sat there, and I sat there.
Nothing was coming, and finally I was like, I'm going.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
And the other thing is people that are traveling south
on Main Street, they're so used to that being a
blinking light that even when it turns red, they go
through it. They think it's just blinking. So when you
have your eight second green light if that maybe five seconds,
and then and then it says no turn on red.
So like, if you're the second car, you're screwed. Oh yeah,

(07:51):
if there's two cars trying to get out, the light
doesn't stay long enough for two cars to even get out.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Oh the no turn on red everywhere in the city yesterday.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Well, I've made the turn on red at that stop
or stopped like there was nothing.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Coming nothing, And I'd sat there for I couldn't tell
you how long. At that point it was frustrating. No,
but for your what would you want? Otis shopping wise?
What don't we have?

Speaker 3 (08:16):
So the the goof and me, okay, I would like
to see a Chess King come back. It was a
store that was there in the eighties and like they
had like the you know, they had the skinny ties
and and anything that was that was fashionable in the
mid eighties was available with Chess King.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
Chess King never heard of that.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
It was Let's put it this way, I made some
purchases there in my day in the early to mid eighties.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
Have a mullet to go with it?

Speaker 3 (08:47):
I did not at the time. I waited until I
was in college before I went with a little bit
of a mullet. And it wasn't like super mulle tea
it was. It was just it was like, you know,
maybe at my shoulder okay, and not super short in
the front. Just but I mean, I had it.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
It wasn't It wasn't a hardcore banging mall.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
No, no, no, It's just you know, like there's a
mini mullet, and that would have probably been about eighty
seven eighty eight, maybe somewhere in that area. So yeah, yeah,
I'm not gonna lie I had one. I did it.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Well, that's our question today.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
But if you had a mullet. No, Now, if you
want me to be serious, I'll tell you my serious answer.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
They all right, we'll get to that. We'll get that.
But that is our question today. What don't we have
shopping wise?

Speaker 3 (09:33):
What?

Speaker 2 (09:33):
What? What? What do you want? Trader Joe's? Are you
like me? A Myers? Or food or entertainment? Chuck E Cheese,
Dave and Busters. There's tons out there. So call us
one eight hundred and sixty two four eleven seventy or
of course you can text us three zero three eight two.
Started off with bloom Daddy because dawned on me. We
have a text line, remember that yesterday. When we get back,

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we're going to dive into some local stories. The Bloomdaddy
Experience OTIS and Sam News Radio eleven seventy WWVA, Heavy Friday,

(10:24):
The Blue Daddy Experience OTIS and Sam News Radio eleven
seventy WWVA. So jumping into some local news, a wheeling
man has been taken into custody on charges related to
a woman's overdose death. Now, we brought you this story
yesterday where they were looking for him. Responding officers found
the woman on responsive in September of twenty twenty two,

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and she later expired at WU Wheeling Hospital. Investigators later
determined the twenty five year old Ryan Mussik Music had
been with the woman when she overdosed. He faces a
feeling charge of failure to under aid resulting in death.
We are hearing more and more of these stories. Unfortunately, Unfortunately,

(11:08):
we are hearing more of these types of stories, especially
around fentanyl. But don't want to dive into that. We
all know that West Virginia, you're not being left out
of the conversation for tax holiday weekend. Of course, we
brought mentioned the Ohio tax free weekend that is happening.
Currently used to be for school supplies, back to school

(11:32):
shopping clothes. Well, Governor DeWine has extended it to any
purchases within that timeframe excluding alcohol, tobacco, auto, and services.
So now West Virginia is involved, they will get to
save money this weekend on several school items. It's all
thanks to the annual tax holiday weekend where clothes, school supplies,

(11:54):
laptops and tablets will be sold through Monday night without
the normal sales tax. There are certain limitations on how
much you can spend during a transaction. You can learn
more about this deal on the internet. So there is
plenty of deals going on both in Ohio and West Virginia.
To pinch some pennies if you're going back to school shopping,

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if you have major purchases, now's the time in Ohio
to jump on the tax free weekend start your Christmas
shopping early. You know, now's the opportunity, but it's also
there are deals happening in West Virginia. This cracks me
up because I have just been inundated with ads on
the internet about this and I learned how popular baby

(12:40):
dog is while I was at the rn C Republican
National Convention. Because as part of the group representing West Virginia,
you receive pins, right little pins that you put on
your lapel or on the lanyard that hangs around your neck.

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You put your state on, but then each state has
a different pin. But then West Virginia, who whoever came
up with the idea, was brilliant. They had a pin
for baby Dog, and I'll tell you what. After Justice
and Baby Dog made their appearance during their speech at
the RNC, I had so many people come up to

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me because that's one of the things with these pins
is you swap with other states. Well, they didn't want
the state of West Virginia pin. They wanted the baby dog.
So baby dog, baby dog is a celebrity. Is a celebrity. Well,
now you can get a bibblehead too. That's where I
was going with this. You can now get a bobblehead.
Trust me, you will see it online. You can also

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get one for Governor Justice. So if you want to
add to your babble head collections.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
I think they're together. It's a together bubble.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
No, they're individual I've seen them. Okay, I've seen the ads.
They're individuals.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
I misread this story.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
Then, yeah, we got a phone call.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
We do. We have Kevin from Bridgeport.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Good morning, Kevin. You have a thought? Oh yeah, for good?

Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yes, something different, Okay, a good Russian restaurant.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
Have you ever had real Russian strogan off? I can't
say that I have. I've never really heard many people
mention Russian food. Honestly, huh it's really good.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Secondly, real quick, is how about an old fashioned orange Julius.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
Those Yeah, back in the day, Back in the day,
orange Julius was the was the place.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Isn't that a cocktail?

Speaker 3 (14:40):
No orangeju It's a it's like a frozen drink. It's
you can actually some of the dairy queen's now carry
Orange Julius.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
But it was a restaurant.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
It was more like it was more like a kiosk
oh okay.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
Okay, and they drop a roig in there if you
wanted it.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
I remember that, But I remember the I remember going
to a mall in Hagerstown, Maryland, and that every every
time we went, I would get Orange Julius because that
was the only place that had it or that I
knew of. So well, all right, Kevin, thanks a lot.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Taught me something this morning.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
Kevin, I'm not sure about the Russian restaurant, Like I'm
not in deoborsed.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Well, if you when you hear people talk about yeah, dudes, yeah,
you hear Spanish, you hear Mexican, you hear Greek, Indian, Indian,
Russian is not.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
You know, It's it's like, hey, let's open up an
English restaurant or an Irish restaurant just doesn't get like
you can do maybe one dish because everything in I
I've been to Ireland and everything that they serve, like
like when you get your plate, there's your meat, whatever
they have it, you know, whatever you're getting there. And

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then at like four different styles of potatoes. So I
mean like you get mashed potatoes, you get tat todds,
you get grotten potatoes. I mean it's like, oh, well
look there's some there's actually like a small piece of
meat with my potatoes.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
Well it cracks me up because there's mashed potatoes and
now there's smashed potatoes. Okay, it's the same thing. One's
just a little chunkier than the other. That's the way
I've picked up on it. No Russian food, all right, Kevin.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
I'm just take your word for it. Yeah, I mean
we're not knocking it.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
No, No, wouldn't have come to my head. So if
you have nothing to do in November on election day,
they are seeking election day workers. The state is preparing.
This is West Virginia. The state is preparing to hire
new election day workers. The all day job will pay
between two hundred and fifty and three hundred dollars, and
you will be paid up to an additional fifty dollars

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for the two hours of training. Pole workers will be
expected to be at the job by five thirty a m.
Well we can't do it, yes, and see if we
take the day off, well, yeah, and stay late until
the ballots are tally. That's a long day.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
You're probably looking at about sixteen hours. I would guess
that's a long that's a really long day. Oh goodness,
and not where I want to go.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
No, no, I.

Speaker 3 (17:14):
Mean listen, hats off to them.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
Oh yeah, I mean I if my grandmother did.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
It for you, My grandmother did it. I mean I
have friends that. I mean, I know people that do it. Now.
You know, if you're retired and you have nothing else
to do, then so so be it. It's an easy
way to make a quick couple bucks.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
It's a social Yeah. The ladies that work my pall,
they crack me up. They sit there and they're knitting
and everything else. Hey, we're gonna jump to a quick
break reminder. Give us a call one hundred sixty two
for eleven seventy. Question of the day, What shopping do
we need here? In the Ohio Valley. Give us call
one hundred sixty two for eleven seventy The bloom Daddy
Experience Otis and Sam News Radio eleven seventy. Welcome back

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to the bloom Daddy Experience, Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy. WWVA.
Just a reminder our fun question on this Friday. What
type of retail shopping do we need here in the
Ohio Valley? What are we missing? You can call us
one eight hundred and sixty two for eleven seventy, or
of course you can text us on the text line
three zero three eight two. Started off with bloom Daddy

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and I will get the message on our text line.
What retail don't we have? I said, A Myers, You
said A what did you say?

Speaker 3 (18:31):
Chess King? Yeah? And I said that was my funny.
Yeah I didn't. I don't. I don't mean it because
I think I think Chess King has since gone bankrupt
and hasn't been in business for thirty years.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
It makes me think of a merry go round.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
You know, you could but you could get kind of yeah,
I mean it was a merry go around kind of
for guys, but like you got your like they sold vans,
remember the vans that had the checkered Yes, the black
and white checker shoose. They sold those before anybody else
was selling them. And you know, like I said, said
they had they had the It was it was very

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emptv ish, their wardrobe, very bright colors. Uh, not necessarily
but you know, like a little more like anything that
you would see on like MTV didn't get bright until
the nineties, so you know, like in the early to
mid eighties, it was the it was the button down
no collar. It kind of had like a little oh yes,

(19:26):
I didn't have the collar.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yeah, I'm talking about.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
The Actually there's a picture on my phone because I
have a shirt that doesn't have a collar. It's my
senior picture. But there's a you know, I mean they
had like, like I said, the skinny ties. They had
some you know, not necessarily the parachute pants, but they
had like they had like I mean, I bought some
nice dress shoes there.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
You know, was this inside the mall?

Speaker 3 (19:51):
Yeah, it was inside the mall, right, I mean, and
it was right almost like in the like where everybody
gathered right in the middle main concourse are Yeah, you know,
kind of like at the time, I think it was
like you had like if you looked one way, it
was J. C. Penny and if you look the other way,
it was Kaufman's and then you know, and then you
were kind of in the middle. And I remember there
was one time and I can't remember that one of

(20:13):
the radio stations around here and and at the time
probably wamp FM, because it's they were the they were
the King of the Hill in the eighties. Yeah, and
they sponsored a high school like spirit contest, so like
you had certain times and like you went it was
almost like a little mini pep rally and so like

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like whoever had the most people and they they they
they rated you on the number of people, how loud
you were, how pep you know how Yeah, And I
just remember doing that, you know, yeah, yeah, that's before
they did they did a lot. I mean, like I
think like so like I think we were behind, like

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they tried not to put like you against somebody that
because they didn't want like fights happening.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
So like I think in front of us was like Barnesville.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Wasn't like your arch nemesis, right, yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
Like it wasn't like you didn't have wheeling park and
Whey Central back to back, or Wheeling Park and John
Marshall or Wheeling Park and Brook back to back. You
know you had you had like Barnesville then Wheeling Park
and then be for Local. Yes, you know some are
you know, union local maybe so like there was no
direct conflict.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so that's our question kind of went
a little further than that. But you know what don't
we have shopping wise? On Facebook? Karen says Trader Joe's.
I drive over an hour to shop at one now,
which is okay, but I'd love to have one closer.
I mean, you got to like the store, drive an
hour over an hour to get to it. I've only
been to a Trader Joe's once.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
I don't know if I've ever I don't think I've
ever been one.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
Didn't. I didn't get the big deal about it, But
Karen wants a Trader Joe Joe's. Joanna says something inside
the mall, like a Target or a Dollar General, which
we have tons of Dollar Generals, Joanna, but she said
it would be more convenience for the workers in the
mall to pick up smaller things. Okay, I get that.

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I agree with that, but we're talking more of, you know,
to bring customers, like what don't we have as consumers,
especially for the entrepreneurs that are going to be being
a part of this small shop, small local.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
One of the things when you get into businesses like
Trader Joe's and you know, some like maybe A Myers
and some of these bigger retailers, what they look at
is they look at your population, and if you do
not have x amount of population within like twenty miles
or maybe even smaller than that, they're not even going

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to consider you. Yeah, because they figured it's not going
to be worth it for them to come in and
invest all that money into a place, and then they're
not going to get what they need to make out
of the store.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
That's what took so long for us to get a chicken.
That was a big part of that too. And then
also the oh, what's the word I'm looking for franchise
owner operator because there's a lot that goes into it.
But there's a lot of different things that go into opening,
you know, being a franchise owner.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
Well, and and you know, like if you if you
really want to put a store in the mall that
I think would succeed is an Ikea mm hmm, yeah,
just because you know it's affordable furniture. You know, they
they have all kind of I've only been to Ikea
maybe once or twice. Actually the actual store up in Robinson,

(23:39):
and you get lost in those things here absolutely. I
mean they got arrows on the floor to get you
through the place, so you know, we're on the wall
or whatever. I mean, I know that like it, like
the they direct you in certain areas and you know,
I mean, I don't you know, I don't know if
again is it a population thing.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Well, from a female point of view, clothing we need
for shopping. I mean it used to be you would
take a Saturday afternoon or a Sunday and you would
go shopping with your girlfriends, which I still do that
cent a market and at the mall. But I think
we need more options when it comes to retail for clothing.

(24:20):
I think that's something that needs to come to the area.
But that's one reason I said Meyer, because it has
a bit of everything. I mean, it really does. But yesterday,
so we've talked about inflation and all of that, and
this kind of goes along with lines of retail and shopping,
went to a fast food place. It was not Chick
fil A, even though I just mentioned them, I'm not

(24:42):
gonna say who it was. And all I got was
the smallest version of a meal. Okay, it was like
twelve dollars. It was ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous. So did some
research because I thought this can't be right. They didn't.

(25:06):
They messed up my order. Whatever. Now, no, that's the
price because since twenty nineteen, first of all, the cost
of living has increased by twenty two percent, which we
all know that, we've all felt it, we all know it.
But fast food was always kind of the cheaper option
for a lot of people when it came to running
through and grabbing something to eat. Since twenty fourteen, McDonald's

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has one hundred percent increased their prices. I believe it duplicated. So,
for example, the mcdouble sandwich went from a dollar and
nineteen cents to three dollars and nineteen cents.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
I didn't even know there was a mcdouble.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
O kay, I don't even know what that is.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
I'm guessing it's just probably a double hamburger, a double cheeseburger, a.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
Quarter pounder with cheese, one from five dollars and thirty
nine cents to eleven dollars and ninety nine cents. That's
just the sandwich.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
I don't think. I don't think that that's I don't
think that's nationwide because I don't think any I don't
think anybody around here has an eleven dollars quarter pounder.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Well, I'm just I'm just going wry. But what I have.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
Now in California absolutely, because they've they've made the minimum
wage fifteen dollars or whatever it is, so again they're
just passing that on to the consumer. And you know,
everybody says, oh, this is great, they're making fifteen dollars
an hour, and then they turn around and they complain
because they gotta pay eleven dollars for a sandwich.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Yeah, it doesn't say I'm looking over here. I'm looking
at the details of the of the stats that I have.
It doesn't say location.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
I'm just on the McDonald's. I'm just like because I
normally don't. If I get something from McDonald's, it's normally
either just a drink or a breakfast sandwich. And I
have net seen an eleven dollars quarter pounder on their menu.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
I don't know. All I know is what I got
yesterday was not worth over twelve dollars, and I was
not real, real happy. Just seems like every time you
turn around.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
Well, I mean, I got a meal. I went through
Chick fil A yesterday and I got the spicy chicken
de luxe meal. Now I upgraded my drink to one
of their frozen lemonades. But I think it was I
think it was thirteen dollars. And that's for the sandwich,
the waff of fries, and the drink.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
I don't know, I don't know it. Like I said,
every time you turn around, seems like it's getting more
and more expensive. All right, our question today, what do
we need to shop? Gotta come on, I know it's
a Friday wake up people. One hund sixty two four
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Next crazy story out of Mayfield Heights, Ohio, near Cleveland.
You won't believe it until I tell you the bloom
Daddy experience. Salm and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA

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Welcome back to the bloom Daddy Experience. Otis and Sam
News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. It's seven p fifty one
on your Friday morning. I hope you're staying dry out there.
I think the rain finally stopped. I can't see it
looks like it from where I'm at. So when I
saw this story, I initially thought, this can't be true.

(28:40):
This can't be true because it's crazy. So we told
you last week about a scam that was that was
running through Belmont County about you know, impersonating Sheriff's department officers,
about being a jerd, things like that. So they're always
coming up with new ways to scam. So you gotta

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stay diligent. You got to stay on your toes. Well,
a woman in Mayfield Heights, she may have found, fell
for the worst. So it's out of a nightmare, honestly.
So she lost nearly six thousand dollars and this happened,
of course, over the phone. Now, what she did was
she received the phone call where the caller told her

(29:23):
that there was a fraudulent charge on her account and
if she didn't move her money to another account, this
money would be stolen. The man on the phone gave
her the numbers to a Chase Bank debit card and
told her to add it to her Apple Wallet. From there,
she was asked to go to a bank and have

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the money transferred onto this debit card through her Apple wallet.
The woman stayed on the phone and withdrew the six
thousand dollars in cash cash. She then went to Chase
and did the transaction, and the caller told her to
tap the Chase debit card on her Apple wallet at
the ATM, transferring nearly nearly six thousand dollars into an

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unknown checking account. Okay, fine, it's fraud. It's a scam,
but it gets weirder than that. When she got home,
the same man, posing as a bank employee called her
on FaceTime. She said he told her they needed to

(30:29):
do a full body scan to verify her identity due
to a failed transaction. The woman told police she undressed
and spun in circles on FaceTime. She then heard the
scammer laughing and realized it was all a hoax.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
Wow, she is dumber than a boxer ox.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
Wow, it doesn't give her age. But as soon as
you get a call on FaceTime, first of all, you've
got to know it's a scam. Second of all, when
you're going from one bank to another bank and you're
using your Apple wallet, why at that point didn't you say,

(31:11):
wait a second, something's not right here. But of course
you know when police are spoken to, they said, you
know your sol that money's gone, you're not getting it back.
But again, if you get a call on FaceTime, you've

(31:33):
got to know that this is a scam. Let alone,
that they need a full body scam to verify your identity.
And then you undress and spend in a circle. Oh honey, honey, honey, honey,
I'm so sorry you fell for this, so sorry you

(31:54):
fell for this. So if you're out there listening and
you get a call from your quote unquote bank on FaceTime,
it's not legit, not legit. And this happened right in
Ohio and Mayfield Heights outside of Cleveland. I mean, everybody

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knows that you know, banks nine times out of ten
aren't going to call you, and you never give any
information over the phone. You say, I will call you
back to verify that they are who they say they
are and they work where they say they work. I mean,

(32:38):
every time you turn around. There's a new scam, there's
a new way that people are trying to get it.
You get your money, get your information. Your social security number,
your birth date are so important to keep as private
as possible. But anytime anybody calls you asking for any

(33:01):
any personal information, you never give it over the phone,
Never ever give it over the phone, let alone spin
around naked to verify your identity. I that's crazy, that's crazy.
OS would have you? Have you ever gotten one of
these calls? Not not to this level. Have you ever
gotten a scam call?

Speaker 3 (33:22):
I don't know if I've got I mean a lot
of times. I just I mean, I don't even answer
phone calls if I don't recognize the number. So I mean, yeah,
if I don't recognize the number and it's important, they'll leave.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
A message, I'll let it go to voicemail.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
And if they don't leave a message, then guess what,
I don't really care. Yeah, the phone I have now,
actually it'll tell me if it's a spam alert, whether
it's a text or or a phone call. Really, it
says spam alert. And so as soon as it says that,
I don't answer it.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
Well, it was a couple months ago, I had a
phone call and it said it was coming from like
is Bakistan or something. And I looked at it and
I thought, hmmm, I wonder if this is legit, Like, really,
nobody's calling me from there.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
Yeah, I don't really have any contacts in his Pakistan
or Kazakhstan or wherever the else. They could be coming
from Algeria, Nigeria. You know, there's all those ones with
the you know, comes help the king divest some of
his money, and you know all those little dumb things
they used to come across on fax machines. At first,

(34:28):
I'm I am the Prince of Soeve and so and
there's a coup coming, and you know I need to
put my money in an American bank account. I will
give you ten percent.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
Yeah, yeah, you know it.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
It's millions of dollars.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
They didn't ask you to spin around naked.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
Not on a fact, No I don't. I mean, I
don't know how that would work. No, Hey, I could
put my cheeks on this scannerikes.

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Speaker 1 (35:36):
CE number one talk show in the Ohio Valley. This
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Experience on news Radio eleven seventy WWVA starts now.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Welcome back to Blimbddy Experience SAM and Otis News Radio
eleven seventy w w VA. Mey, we have made it
to the eight o'clock hour on your Friday morning. Hey,
just a quick announcement from the Marshall County Chamber of Commerce.
Due to the weather happening today, the summer concert tonight
will now be moved to the front from the Moundsville

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Riverfront now to the Strand Theater. This will be featuring
the forty plus band from Brook and Brook County. So
if you're planning on attending tonight at the Riverfront, the
summer concert will now be at the Strand Theater in Moundsville.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
So so you just said theater two different ways?

Speaker 2 (36:42):
Did I say theater?

Speaker 3 (36:43):
You did? I mean, there's nothing wrong with that, and
that's perfectly fine, but I just I was like, did
she just say theater? Yeah? And I was like okay,
And then you said theater on the seconde and I'm like, okay, Well,
it just must have been one of them things.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Theater or theater is one of those words that my
mom says it one way, my dad says it the
other way, and I've picked it up from both, and
it just depends what comes out, you know.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
Whenever I hear a theater, it takes me back to
We had a training seminar for my other job, and
it was kind of like a mock trial. So they
gave you some information and then they called like you
had you were out in the hallway, and then they
called you to the stand and you had to testify,
you know. So I mean it was kind of like
and they gave you a scenario, and every like your

(37:34):
whole group had the same scenario, and then once you
were done, you get to watch everybody else, you know,
And there was like four or five people in a group.
So one of our one of my coworkers from Petersburg,
West Virginia, you know, and he's down home country guy,
you know, a great guy. He one of the topics was,
you know, you walked into a bar and they had
sixty inch screen TVs. I mean, this is like ten

(37:56):
years ago, fifteen years ago, so that's like sixty inch
was huge, right, And so in his testimony he said,
he said they had four sixty in screen TVs on
the wall. He said, back home, we call that a theater.
Just just funny, I mean. And if you knew this guy,

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he was he's a former Kennedy Award winner, which is
like the best football player in the state of West Virginia.
Had a full scholarship to West Virginia University. Was there
for less than twenty four hours because he didn't like Morgantown.
Was playing in a softball was playing in a softball
tournament and the Reds offered they off they offered him
a tryout, and he said, unless you're going to sign

(38:39):
me to a contract, I'm not going to do it.
He was in a softball tournament and the Cincinnati Reds
offered him a tryout. He's very good friends with John
Cruck who played in the major leagues, played for the
Phillies and the Padres. But he's very good friends with
John Cruck. They were scouting at a softball well they
just I think there was a scout that might have
been playing in the in the in the tournament and

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saw him and said, we'd like to give you a
try out. Hey, the guy can do anything.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
That's like a story out of a movie.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
He can play basketball, he can honestly didn't play ping pong.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
But he loves the theater.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
He loves the theater.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
Oh, come on, there are certain words that absolutely that
just you know, I get made fun of a lot
for the way I say syrup, sarp, I say syrup.
I know, I costume, coupon.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
You actually said it right there, right, coupon. Normally you
used to say coupon.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
Coupon, coupon whatever.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
I don't do that.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
My grandmother, grandmother did that. Yeah, and my mom is
an English teacher. Would just you could just see her
cringe every time, did you.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
I think everybody's grandma.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
Yeah, at one point in time. It's a it's a
it's a regional thing.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
Yeah, my dad, I hope he's not listening my dad
is I love when he says this. I think it's adorable.
Drives my mother nuts. Ambulance, you know, such and such
needed to call the ambulance. And my mom is like,
that's not it's ambulance. Now, it's the ambulance. It's just

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I don't know. There's just certain words. That's fine, there's
just certain words.

Speaker 3 (40:22):
You know. But like like a lot of times people like,
I do you write like when you deal with when
you talk about Center Market and.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
Wheeling, Oh the spelling of it.

Speaker 3 (40:32):
Yeah, like so they do the R E instead of
the E R and and and and also sometimes with
the theater they'll do R E instead of E r hmhmm.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
I'm trying to I'm trying to visualize it in my head,
like writing it and typing it center Market s C
E N T R E.

Speaker 3 (40:49):
That's one spelling of it. Yeah, they'll you can do E.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
R so I mean it really ambulance.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
That's all right, You're dead fine, Ole Bay, that's.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
Wells Bay, I've gotten I've got.

Speaker 3 (41:06):
Well my one my old supervisor, you would say ogles By.
She would put the S in there, and I'm like,
there's no S. Where do you get where are you
getting the ogles?

Speaker 2 (41:15):
Well, And it's funny because rise bcs. I have people
you know that'll say that, well.

Speaker 3 (41:21):
Bloom Daddy instead of saying respects, he says respects. He picks,
he makes it a Z really respects. Not all the time,
but every once in a while, like and I think
it's just I think it's sometimes you just get into
it that we we know people and that have the
last name respect and a lot of times people will
say respect and it's it's nothing major, but.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
Just I mean, if you really think about the English
language and the way we spell in letters, and there's
letters and words that aren't actually used. You know how
many times I say to myself I before E, except
after C, and like there's a.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
Whole thing that there's there's a that there was a
mean that says I before you except after and it
says accepted and it makes a sentence with all words
that are exceptions to the rule. It's actually kind of funny.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
But yeah, a lot of the English language that.

Speaker 3 (42:09):
We have is well they say English is the hardest
language to learn, Well, probably.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
I mean, none of it makes any sense when you
actually really phonetically sound out some of the words, the
letters and the words and how we actually spell them
in the today, and.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
That if you if you like, if you can learn Spanish.
But I'm just saying, if you can learn Spanish, you
can more than likely pick up French, Italian and some
of the other languages like that similar because they're very similar.
So I mean, it's you know, and so if you
if you can master say, Spanish, or you can master French,

(42:44):
you can probably you're probably gonna be able to pick up,
you know, Italian and something else pretty quickly. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
I took what did I I took French in high school.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
So I was terrible.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
It was awful. It was awful. Even all they cared
about was conjugating verbs. I'm like, what's the word for dog?
They're like, now you've got to conjugate this and that,
and I'm like, no, no, no, what's the word for
dog or bathroom?

Speaker 3 (43:10):
That's teach me what I need to know.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
Yeah, that's that's what matters.

Speaker 3 (43:14):
My name is is Jamapel something? And then you say Jammappelle,
I remember a lot.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
I remember garbela is garbage? Can Okay, that's what I remember.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
Can you point me to the resturary.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
Yeah, that's that's the important stuff.

Speaker 3 (43:33):
How do I get a cab? Those are the things
you need?

Speaker 2 (43:37):
And do you worsh your clothes in France?

Speaker 3 (43:40):
Did you just said? I know what?

Speaker 2 (43:42):
Purpose? On purpose?

Speaker 3 (43:44):
This segment just went straight to the hopper.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
Hey, here's a good story though. Out of Belmont County,
seventy five years married.

Speaker 3 (43:57):
That's a long time.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
That's a long time, big hunger to marry. And Mark
di Ambrosia four children, six grandchildren and eight grand great grandchildren,
is celebrating their seventy fifth wedding anniversary, which is the
diamond diamond. So you're telling me I have to be
married seventy five years before I get a good diamond gift.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
Probably that's not gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
No, we're not gonna make it seventy five years. No,
well here's physically we're not gonna make it.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
You figure, you know, if you've been married seventy five years,
you're probably you probably got married very young seventeen eighteen.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
They met when they were seventeen.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
Yeah, so I mean, and not to take anything away,
but I mean people today don't get married, no, and
if they do get married at seventeen eighteen years old,
nineteen years old. It normally doesn't want guest.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
Yeah, congrats to them. I mean that is quite a
mark or seventy five years and they still remember the
day they met. Good for them, because I barely remember
the day I met my husband God seventy five years.
Mary and Mark enjoy that. And Mark give her the
biggest diamond she can you can find. That's the that's

(45:09):
the gift. She's earned it. Oh hey, we got another
giveaway coming up this hour, four tickets to Rougherraadi August ninth.
We're gonna jump to a quick break The bloom Daddy Experience,
samon Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA. Welcome back the

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Blue Daddy Experience, samon Otis News Radio, eleven seventy WWVA. Okay,
so we were talking about weird words. Maybe I wasn't taught.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
I don't know if it was weird words. It was
just the same word two different ways and almost in
the same sense.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
Yes, So it takes you to kind of education a
little bit. And I have said this for years. When
you graduate high school, did you feel prepared?

Speaker 3 (46:23):
Did you feel like I was ready to go to
the next step? That I had I've reached adulthood. I
don't think I've reached adulthood yet, and a lot of
my actions show this. No, I mean I think I do.
I think that there was you know, I look back

(46:45):
and like algebra, algebra two, geometry, you know, they weren't
topics that I needed to learn. You know, I don't
need to know Pythagoran's theory for for this. I'm really
surprised that I even remembered that. But I don't need

(47:06):
to know that for this job or my other job.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
Well, I always think of I remember I was terrible
at math, terrible. I had to take like refresher math
my freshman year of college because I did so bad
on the math portion of the entry exams and everything.
And I remember my teacher always saying, you'll not always

(47:30):
have a calculator with you.

Speaker 3 (47:33):
Yeah, you will.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
I'm sorry, missus. I'm not going to say you were wrong.
I was right. But okay, So I bring this up
because at about twenty two percent of high school students
feel that they are very prepared, only twenty two percent.
But there's a difference between the book learning and real

(48:00):
life need to know stuff. Because it took me forever.
And I still struggle with things like an interest rate,
or or co pays or when you're talking insurance and
the the no, I can't even think of the word

(48:23):
not co pay. But if you have a car accident.

Speaker 3 (48:26):
The insurance, the deductible, that's it.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
The deductible. You know those types sorry, yeah, the deductible.
You know all of those ins and outs of adulthood
that they don't tea how to balance a check book,
you know, those are the those need to be taught
in school before you graduate high school.

Speaker 3 (48:46):
So I have a I have a friend who's a teacher,
and and he teaches. At the time, I think now
he teaches phyzed But at the time he was he
was with probably lower level. I don't know if it
was necessarily, but we would call special ad might have
been a step above that could have. But like they said, well,

(49:06):
what are you doing? And he said, look, he said,
I've got to teach these kids life skills. He said,
I'm teaching him how to make change because they're probably
going to get a job at you know, a Dollar
General or or or you know, or at a convenience
store or something that, you know, Walmart. I would rather
teach them how to make change than try to teach
them something that they're never going to use in their life.

(49:29):
You know, how to how to balance a check book,
how to you know, you know, how to understand little
little things. And he got it. I mean he he,
he actually gets it and knows what he's talking about.
Because you know, I sit there and I watch these
people today, and they couldn't make change if it wasn't
for their cash register telling them how much change to

(49:51):
give back. You know, I I've never looked at a
computer to tell me how to give change backs. I've
always just counted up. So in other words, like if
you're ten seventy seven, then I count the change to eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, twenty.
There you go. I made you your change. I don't
need the computer.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
Is there anything that you feel like you didn't get taught?

Speaker 3 (50:13):
I think yeah, I mean I think that there's I
think that there's things that young people get sucked into.
And that is as soon as you get to college,
Oh hey, come on, get your first credit card.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
Yep, they got me, they got me.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
And the next thing, you know, you don't understand about
the interest rates. You don't understand about minimum payments. You know,
you understand. Okay, Well, I just put one thousand dollars
on my credit I maxed out my credit card because
you probably only have a five hundred or one thousand
dollars limit, and now I'm paying I don't have the
money because I'm only making minimum wage and I'm only
working twenty hours a week, and my minimum payment's fifty

(50:50):
five dollars. So I'm scrounging the fifty five dollars up
and that's all on paining. Well, then that thousand dollars
is now going to cost you three to four thousand
dollars over of course of time.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
Yeah, you're not even making a dent.

Speaker 3 (51:01):
And I think that that's you know, I think that
that's something that if you're if you are a graduating senior,
or even if if a junior, they that's those are
things that they should teach you in school because it's
you can very you can get sucked in very easily.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
I think they also need to teach you. And I
did not realize this that when you're going to make
a purchase and apply for a loan, whether it's a
car loan, a home loan, it is better to have
a balance due on a credit card than to not
have any credit cards at all, or to have them
all paid off, because I remember when I went to

(51:40):
get my first car loan by myself, I worked for
like six months to pay off every single credit card
because I thought, this is great, I have no debt.
This is gonna no smooth sailing. And they were like no, no, no,
no no, you want the complete opposite. And I'm like
but in my mind, like, well that doesn't make any sense.
You don't want to see that I owe other people money.

(52:03):
But then they say, well they want you to. We
want to see that you do owe people money and
that you're paying them.

Speaker 3 (52:09):
Sure. Yeah. I ran into that once too, because I
paid off all my credit cards and I said I'm
not going to get another one, and then I went
for a loan and they said, well, you don't have
a line of credit. I'm like, what do you mean
I don't have a line of credit?

Speaker 2 (52:21):
Right?

Speaker 3 (52:22):
Yeah, I mean I don't have a credit history. And
that's because I paid off all my credit cards and
didn't get any new ones, and you know, I didn't
have anything that I owed money on, and the credit
union I was using at the time. Wasn't reporting like
my car payment and my loan payments and things like
that that I had from the credit and so, I

(52:42):
mean it became very confusing and it became very frustrating.

Speaker 2 (52:46):
Well, let's throw this out to the listeners. You know,
what do you wish you would have been taught in
school before you graduated? You know what life skill or
financial skill do you feel like you had to learn
on your own that should be taught to our whatever subject?

Speaker 3 (53:00):
Yeah? What should be taught in school? Basically? Yeah, that
you didn't learn?

Speaker 2 (53:03):
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Sam and Otis News Radio eleven seventy WWVA talking about

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the bloom Daddy Experience Otis and Sam News Radio, eleven
seventy WWVA. So we were talking, what were you not
taught in school that you feel like you should have
before you graduated high school? I'm speaking about yeah, and
I said, the basic you know, day to day finances

(53:57):
and the insurance conversation cope, heys deductibles, that kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (54:02):
Yeah, and I said, you know, basically, like you said,
it's just some little life skills, like learn how to
count change, because if you go into business, I mean
you could you can be the best person out there
knowing how to run a business. But if you can't
make change, it's in today's day and world, today's day
and age, you have a computer that does it for you.
You know, if you're if you're if you're at the

(54:24):
grocery store and your bill's eighty nine to ninety five
and I give you one hundred dollars bill, they just
type that in and it tells you what to give
them back. But it's not everybody has those. I mean
you pretty much do now, but I mean for the
most part. You know, if you work at a small business,
you might not have that opportunity.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
Or how to save money, yeah, you know, how to
invest properly. You know, what's the difference between an IRA
and a basic savings account, or what's the difference between
a vacation club versus.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
A or a Christmas club or something like that.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
Yeah, yeah, that kind of stuff. I guess that. I
guess that's something we can approach. Belmont Savings Bank about
when they're here with us on the money money conversation.
So yeah, I mean, what what do you feel like
was lacking when you graduated high school? What were you
unprepared for? You know? I when I went to West
Liberty freshman year, Like godis mentioned, they get you right there,

(55:21):
credit cards, understanding that you know, those kind of basic,
basic skills that we all learned the hard way.

Speaker 3 (55:28):
I'll tell you what needs to be taught now that
didn't need to be taught when we were in school.
Phone etiquette, because kids today do not They just text,
they'll FaceTime. They did it. My kids are horrible. My
kids were horrible in high school.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Entering the fan communication skills, Yeah, absolutely, How to just
have a random conversation with somebody?

Speaker 3 (55:52):
This ought to be great, okay because we have the
dude on the line.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
Oh no, hi stranger, as I all know it should be. Hey,
how have you been?

Speaker 3 (56:02):
I miss you well? Because you never know what is
going to come out of your mouth.

Speaker 1 (56:08):
Yeah, basically, listen, I don't even know that.

Speaker 3 (56:13):
We're all on a crazy ride. All right, all right,
what what hold on? Let me get my finger on
the dumb button.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
Okay, what have what were you not taught in school. Well,
I try to teach us when kids start working with
us at a young age, right out of high school, working.

Speaker 3 (56:30):
In gas and oil.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
I said, your retirement, Oh, that's what the percentage you
should put in and everything.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
It's like I try to push it on them, like
what you.

Speaker 3 (56:41):
Should put back.

Speaker 2 (56:42):
And I mean because one day you're going to want
to retire. I mean, that's it, and you're going to
need something to live on. So so don't go and
buy every toy like SUV or ATV and fifty thousand
dollars truck that you want.

Speaker 3 (56:57):
That's be practical.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
It's practical. Can spend on other things, but just be
responsible with others.

Speaker 3 (57:07):
If you could do that, that makes a lot of sense.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
I am very impressed.

Speaker 3 (57:10):
And I am too. I mean, like I think that's
the first time you've ever called in and been serious.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
Well I do have another thing, oh boy, And I
learned this the hard way.

Speaker 3 (57:23):
Size does matter in your paycheck. I'm talking about your paycheck. Yeah, yeah,
I get it. It doesn't matter. Yeah, I get it.
All right, man, Hey, appreciate it. Don't be a stranger, yep. Right,
but he's right, he is right.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
That's a good one that.

Speaker 3 (57:41):
Yeah, and the last time we had oh Steve, oh,
Steve Waters. Yeah, we had Steve on you know. One
of the questions I asked him was, you know, young
people just getting out of because I think it was
right after like graduation season, and I said, you know,
what can you tell young people to how to invest
into a retirement fund or something like that? And even

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if you don't have a four oh one K or
something like that, open up a savings account. Just put
twenty five dollars or fifty dollars a week in it
or a pay you know, and and then once you
get to a job that maybe has a four to
one K, you take it and you just you transfer
it over, you know. So I mean, let's say you
work two or three years in a I don't want

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to say, let's say an entry level job, right, okay,
and you're not making you're not there's no retirement there
or anything like that. Than boom, you take a couple
bucks every pay put it in. So maybe you have
five or six hundred dollars maybe one thousand dollars. When
you get that job that has the retirement program, you say, hey,

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can I invest this one hundred dollars. A lot of
times they'll say, yeah, there's all.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
Those little tricks that you pick up off of other people. Okay,
so take take your mortgage payment. Right. So, when we
bought our first house, I remember the gentleman that did
our loan. As we were signing the paperwork. The one
thing he said to to me was, if you can
pay twenty five dollars or fifty dollars extra every month,

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you will get your loan paid off roughly ten years
before the I forget what it was at that point
on if it was a thirty year loan or whatever,
you'll get it paid off so much faster. But he said,
the one thing to make sure when you do that
payment is check the box that it goes. It doesn't
go to the it goes to the balance.

Speaker 3 (59:35):
Not not the principal. Yeah, no, the principle, but not
the interesting correct.

Speaker 2 (59:41):
So and you know I've done that religiously. So those
are the little things that you know, unless you talk
to the right person or you have somebody in your
life that tells you that kind of stuff. Family wise,
you learn a lot of that stuff the hard way. Yeah, unfortunately,
And those are one of the little tricks and stuff
that you know need to be taught to our our

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high school kids.

Speaker 3 (01:00:05):
And I'll tell you something right now, I'm I'm going
to be fifty eight years old at the end of
the year when when it comes time to renew our insurance,
I have no idea what I'm looking at when it
comes to insurance. When it comes to health insurance, and
you know, you have plan A and Plan B and
Plan C and do you have this and do you
have that? It is so confusing. And they offer workshops,
but you go to a workshop or you attend you

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maybe do it online or something, and you sit there
and you're going, Okay, you're explaining it because you understand it.
You're not explaining it to me, so I can understand.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
They don't. They don't speak to dumb it down. I mean,
I hate to say no way, but yeah, dumb it
down absolutely. And eventually, to me, when that happens to me,
they eventually turn into Charlie Brown's teacher, won't Wall, won't
wah ball. It's just one ear and out the other.

Speaker 3 (01:00:50):
And I think, I think you know, you know you know,
and I like, I'll say like, because you know, my
dad obviously was a state employee, and I'll ask him,
I'll say, hey, what am I doing here? I have
no idea? Okay, And I talk to other people when
it's like, you know, it's like they have no idea

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what they're talking about. So it's like we don't know.
I don't even know what my coverage is. I just
know that when I go to certain doctors, I have
to pay either ten dollars or twenty dollars or fifty
dollars in a copay. And then you know, do I
get a bill down the road. I might, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
Well, that's the one thing for people who work in
specialty industries, whether you're an insurance agent or or you're
you're a mechanic or whatever, you have your own language
within the world that you work. You've got to remember
that if I don't work in that world, I do
not know what you're talking about. You have to dumb

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it down for it.

Speaker 3 (01:01:48):
If there's terminology, yeah, so, I mean there's terminology I
use in my other job that if I said something
to you, you would have no idea what it meant.

Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
Well, if we said something about you know, input a
or audio this, and people wouldn't know what we were
talking about when we talk about radio mechanics. Sure you know.
So when you are speaking to an insurance insured, insurance
agent or those you know, a financial investor, ask them,
do you know, Please explain this to me at my level.

Speaker 3 (01:02:14):
Pretend I'm twelve, yeah, yeah, and explain it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:18):
Yes, I have a third grade education level. Yeah, Now
explain it to me. Because it does get any and
it can get overwhelming. That's the other side of that
coin that sometimes that's where the Charlie Brown voice comes in,
where because your brain just goes Nope, I'm done. I've
got enough. Nothing else fits, nothing else fits. You know

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Speaker 3 (01:03:33):
Well, yes, no, he's our buddy. Kevin is down in
Bridgeport at the Mountaineer Honda and he is busy. Yeah,
he's got a meeting, he said. He said, Hey, what's
going on? And he goes, Oh, he says, I gotta
go to this meeting. He said, describe it Monday. Oh yeah,
so hey, did you take it?

Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
We'll just say they're number one in the state of
West Virginia.

Speaker 3 (01:03:56):
Mountain your Honda number one, Yeah, Honda after number three,
after three at Straw Honda and Wheeling. Yeah, you know, so,
I mean that's that's pretty impressible.

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
We'll handle it, Kevin.

Speaker 3 (01:04:05):
Yeah, we'll handle it all kind of bargains. There you
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dot Com. There you go today, two days today, two
days today. It is International Beer Day.

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
Okay, it was i PA Day yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:04:23):
Do you have a favorite beer.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
I can't stand beer, Okay, I don't like it. I've
had the cheap, I've had the expensive, I've had the international.
I just can't do beer.

Speaker 3 (01:04:35):
My beer. If I had to pick my beer choice,
it would probably be Guinness.

Speaker 2 (01:04:38):
That's my husband's.

Speaker 3 (01:04:40):
And if I had to pick a second beer of choice,
I don't know what it's called, but I remember it's
been years since I've had it. But lining Google, they
put out a beer that actually has like kind of
like a blueberry flavor to it, and it's actually pretty
darn good. But it's been years since I've had it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:02):
Really, Yeah, I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:05:04):
Sam Adams has a cherry wheat. It's pretty good too.

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
It's another weird thing about me. I guess I'm not
a beer person.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
It's also so this one, now, this one, I know
that you've part taken in before National ice Cream Sandwich Day.

Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
Oh yeah, that that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:20):
Yes, I think everybody's had an ice cream sandwich at
some point in time in their life.

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:05:25):
Did you know that an ice cream sandwich, if you
leave it out, it will not melt?

Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:05:30):
No, I mean it might be, it might like a
little bit, but it's it technically will not melt.

Speaker 2 (01:05:37):
The ice cream will not melt.

Speaker 3 (01:05:39):
I don't think it's really ice cream.

Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
I've not heard that before.

Speaker 3 (01:05:44):
So next time, listen. Do we still have the ice
cream sandwiches that are like forty years old in the
freezer here? Yeah? So what we ought to do is
leave just won't get a paper plate. We'll put one
on it and see what happens, and we'll come back
and check. We won't on I mean over the weekend. Yeah, okay,
I mean, like we'll unwrap it and we'll hide at
someplace that like no creators get into it. Like, we'll
put it in one of the foul cabnet drawers, like

(01:06:05):
the net, the net that's driving you crazy. So yeah,
we well, we'll we'll do a little test. Okay, we're
gonna be Actually, what we'll do is we'll put it
in a cup so that way in case it does melt,
it's not going to go.

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
Mister Wizard and missus Wizard for the weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:06:21):
Yeah, we'll do our little experience. I don't think. I
don't think ice creams. I've seen it before where they've
left him out for like six hours and they really
they like I said, the edges might have a little
bit of a drip, but they really don't melt before
And we have a celebrity birthday today. Oh this this
guy now is older than the oldest character that was

(01:06:42):
portrayed on his show.

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
This Okay, say that again. This guy now is.

Speaker 3 (01:06:47):
Older then the person was the oldest person was portrayed
on the show. Is he still alive the oldest guy?

Speaker 2 (01:06:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:06:59):
No, no, because this guy's seventy one. Ted Danson, No,
I think you got to think of a little kid
on the show.

Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
Oh, I'm thinking you cheers, little kid. I'll leave it
to Beaver.

Speaker 3 (01:07:12):
You're close, you're in that site, You're in the right
time frame.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:07:15):
Butch Patrick, he played.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
Eddie Munster Munsters.

Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
Okay, Eddie Munster, he's at seventy one, he's older than
Grandpa was when Grandpa was on the show. You see
what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:07:26):
The actor, the actor, I gotcha because.

Speaker 3 (01:07:28):
I think the actor was only in his fifties when
he was played Grandpa Grandpa.

Speaker 2 (01:07:34):
So have you seen the replica house that somebody's done
in California of the Monsters? No?

Speaker 3 (01:07:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
Online, Okay, yeah, I don't know how old?

Speaker 3 (01:07:43):
Does that make you feel? Like, I mean, obviously when
I watched The Munsters, when you watch the Monsters, they
were reruns, Yes, and like Eddie Munster being seventy one
makes me feel like I'm ancient or like like I mean,
like you know, because like you don't think like, you
don't think of Eddie Mounthster being grown ups.

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
Well, you know what got me? Was it last week
or the week before when Shannon Doherty passed. Now, now
she had cancer and she fought a really hard battle
with cancer. But she was in her fifties.

Speaker 3 (01:08:17):
Yeah, she's well she's younger than me.

Speaker 2 (01:08:19):
Yeah, and I'm like, it was like, oh my gosh,
Brenda's in her fifties. That makes you feel old?

Speaker 3 (01:08:25):
Well what makes you like that wasn't a show that
I watched, but like Full House Oh when?

Speaker 2 (01:08:30):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:08:31):
Because now you like the girl the Olsen twins. I
mean they were little, they were like two or three,
and now they're like in their thirties.

Speaker 2 (01:08:38):
Late thirties probably. Yeah, which, by the way, have you
seen the oldest sister, uh, Candice Cameron Beret.

Speaker 3 (01:08:45):
I've seen her. I mean I don't forget what her.

Speaker 2 (01:08:47):
Name was on the show. She grew up. She's gorgeous.
Because when she was on the show, she got picked
on all the time nationally that she was chubby, she
was unattractive. Well, she was going through puberty. And for
any sure woman listening, we all know when we go
through puberty it's the worst time.

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
Guy, even boys, when they go through that puberty. I
mean it's a very awkward stage.

Speaker 2 (01:09:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:09:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:09:12):
But so she got ripped on constantly and judged and
made fun of. She has turned out to.

Speaker 3 (01:09:18):
Be beautiful and well Jodie Sweeten, who yeah, younger. I
mean she's you know, she's pretty good looking too, I
mean she she. I mean they've they've aged well yeah yeah,
and they've grown up well yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:09:29):
But yeah, when you see somebody that that just yeah,
it does make you feel very old, makes you feel
very old. Or when you talk to somebody and you say,
you know, have you seen the movie Office Space where
they wear flair or swing line and they look at you?
Do you know you've never seen that movie? Okay, all right,

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never mind, so that like they're looking at you like,
but I was talking to a younger person that like,
well when did they when did that come out? And
I said, I don't know. Two thousand and three, three,
two thousand and four. Why was born in ninety nine? Okay?
Eh is what I wanted to say. Office Space?

Speaker 3 (01:10:10):
Never even heard of it?

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
Okay, go watch it. It's a cult. It's a cult comedy.
It's good. It's got Jennifer Aniston.

Speaker 3 (01:10:16):
In it, So there's a selling point.

Speaker 2 (01:10:18):
Well, I don't know, but it's good. So yeah, that
kind of stuff makes you feel old. Absolutely. So you're
gonna celebrate National Beer Day, I am not. No, no, Hey,
just a reminder before we're out of here. Wanted to
let everybody know this weekend is Betty'szaine Days and Martin's
Ferry okay. And then also if you want to help out,

(01:10:39):
you don't want to miss Everybody's Got Everyone's Got Talent
happening tomorrow at the Saint Clairsville Rec Center outdoor Amphitheater.
This has inflatables, a dunk tank. It's all in support
of the Ark of Ohio who help with underprivileged and
mental disability. So go out and support. Hey, we're out
of here on this Friday. Everybody, enjoy your weekend. Lend

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Beck is up next.

Speaker 3 (01:11:04):
H